jmdict 1469000 Active (id#2351225)
年中 [ichi1,news1,nf16] ； 年じゅう [sK]
【 ねんじゅう [ichi1,news1,nf16] ； ねんちゅう； ねんぢゅう 】
  1. [n]
    • whole year
    • all year round
    • throughout the year
  2. (ねんじゅう,ねんぢゅう only) [adv]
    • always
    • all the time
    • perpetually
  3. [n]
    • during an era
  4. (ねんちゅう only) [n]
    • second-year kindergarten student
History:
    • A 2025-11-10 22:19:02 Stephen Kraus (id#2351225)
    • Refs
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 年中　　　 │ 3,578,506 │ 99.7% │
│ 年じゅう　 │     8,535 │  0.2% │ - sK
│ ねんじゅう │     1,911 │  0.1% │
│ ねんちゅう │       902 │  0.0% │
│ ねんぢゅう │         0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -21 +21,0 @@
-<re_restr>年中</re_restr>
@@ -25 +24,0 @@
-<re_restr>年中</re_restr>
    • A 2024-11-01 00:15:08 Marcus Richert (id#2319784)
    • Comments
      without a mention in the 幼稚園 entry that it's a 3 year system in Japan, the xref is pointless.
    • Diff
      @@ -48 +47,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1545260">幼稚園</xref>
    • A 2024-10-31 05:52:25 Jim Breen (id#2319741)
    • A* 2024-10-30 11:13:47 Marcus Richert (id#2319665)
    • Comments
      I think it's better to define sense 4 as a student then as a class. daijs does this: 幼稚園・保育園で、4歳児。
Interesting we had this sense for 年中 but not 年少 or 年長...

The x-ref might help Americans confused by the fact that in the US, kindergarten is just 1 year.
    • Diff
      @@ -48 +48,3 @@
-<gloss>middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1545260">幼稚園</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1545260">幼稚園</xref>
+<gloss>second-year kindergarten student</gloss>
    • A 2017-10-29 15:41:28 Robin Scott
    • Comments
      Ok, I don't have a problem with keeping it.
Meikyo wasn't one of the refs you listed. I assumed the reading was added in error.
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