Kanji of the year

[Akinomaki 40,207]

Kanji of the year this time: 輪 - WA or RIN – as in Olympics: gorin - ring or circle:

a circle/group of persons in close relations, usually the Japanese people as a whole or from a region, becoming a WA to strive for a common goal or by sharing the same feelings:

to get/from getting the Olympics and Mt Fuji as world heritage and the RAKUten Eagels (team from the Tohoku disaster area) first yusho (they are the newest baseball team in the 2 top leagues):

RAKU 楽 (ease) and in e.g. tanoshimi (enjoyment, looking forward) was 2^nd most popular kanji, BAI 倍 from bai-gaeshi (one phrase of the year) was 3^rd with 7623 votes.

Determined with a poll by the Japan Kanji Ability Certification Association: 170 290 entries this year, 9518 selected WA. As always (started in 1995) it was written at the Kiyomizu-temple in Kyoto by the chief abbot on the “Kanji Day”, Dec. 12^th.

http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2013/12/12/kanji-2013_n_4430122.html

(pics of the kanji of years before listed below)

Usually many people are asked to write/name one kanji to represent their year, prime minister Abe has dream (coming true: Tokyo Olympics), the kanji Hakuho and Kisenosato especially like.

Endo selected 縁, EN (not his from Endo), connection, destiny.

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2013/12/14/kiji/K20131214007198300.html

Generally all popular rikishi are asked and many are reported.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZQ4FomPZUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-nxxp5QPL0

[Asojima 2,873]

Kanji of the year this time: 輪 - WA or RIN – as in Olympics: gorin - ring or circle:

Also the WA in Wajima.

[Akinomaki 40,207]

Kanji of the year 2015 is AN 安, this year exclusively from (in)security (treaty), also yasu in Takayasu.
The poll had 129 647 entries this year, 5632 selected AN - last year 167 613 entries and 8679 selected "tax".
2nd this year with 4929 was baku, explode, not just bombs, one of the 2 top phrases of this year was "bakugai", shopping spree (the 50 nominations).
3rd was sen, fight, battle, with 4556.
As always (started in 1995) it was written at the Kiyomizu-temple in Kyoto by the chief abbot.

Generally all popular rikishi are asked about their kanji of the year and many are reported (in another thread). Edited December 15, 2015 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,207]

This year the most boring choice again, 金 kin/kane, gold and money for the 3rd time after 2000 and 2012 - Olympic years - and money rules. http://www.kanken.or.jp/kanji2016/

Phrases of the year look boring as well, a baseball winner: http://singo.jiyu.co.jp/detail.html#prize01

The 30 nominations: http://gigazine.net/news/20161117-word-of-the-year/

Best dictionary new words of the year look more interesting: http://dictionary.sanseido-publ.co.jp/topic/shingo2016/2016Best10.html

Sanseido picked hobo-hobo as the one: hobo means nearly and hobo-hobo is even closer to 100%.

I expect rikishi's kanji of the year reports start after the Nikkan ozumo awards are complete.

Same procedure as every year:

[Akinomaki 40,207]

On 16/12/2016 at 17:05, Akinomaki said:

This year the most boring choice again, 金 kin/kane, gold and money for the 3rd time after 2000 and 2012 - Olympic years - and money rules.

Olympic year, and again 金 kin/kane, gold and money is the kanji of the year, 10422 votes of 223773 in total, 2nd rin 輪 with 10304, the Olympic rings.

Like every year, at the Purify-water temple, the Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, written today by the chief abbot. https://www.kanken.or.jp/kanji2021/

[Akinomaki 40,207]

The best newly created 4 kanji phrases of the year were announced yesterday by Sumitomo life insurance, one for the exceptional retirement of Hakuho made it to the best 9 runner-ups,  引退鵬道 intaihoudou, retirement reports - properly 引退報道, but with the hou from Hakuhou. http://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/202112210000852.html

[Kaminariyuki 498]

On 13/12/2021 at 11:37, Akinomaki said:

Olympic year, and again 金 kin/kane, gold and money is the kanji of the year, 10422 votes of 223773 in total, 2nd rin 輪 with 10304, the Olympic rings.

Like every year, at the Purify-water temple, the Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, written today by the chief abbot. https://www.kanken.or.jp/kanji2021/

 

Wow, they actually chose a kanji that I know!  :)

 

[Akinomaki 40,207]

The kanji of the year was announced yesterday and written as always by the chief abbot of the Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto: 税 zei - tax , like 10 years ago, 5967 votes of 147 878.

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all previous years: 2022 down to 1995

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live broadcast with first the scenes from recent years repeated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzkK-N20IQc&t=1h49m

The top 20 by Kanken, the Kanji kentei kyokai https://www.kanken.or.jp/kanji2023/common/images/release.pdf

2 is heat with 5571, 3 last year's war with 5011 votes

[Barutokai 64]

Cool. With the calligraphy presentation it has more style than those Words/Unwords/Words of the Youth we have in Germany every year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_of_the_year

Full list.

[Akinomaki 40,207]

On 13/12/2021 at 19:37, Akinomaki said:

On 16/12/2016 at 17:05, Akinomaki said:

This year the most boring choice again, 金 kin/kane, gold and money for the 3rd time after 2000 and 2012 - Olympic years - and money rules.

Olympic year, and again 金 kin/kane, gold and money is the kanji of the year, 10422 votes of 223773 in total, 2nd rin 輪 with 10304, the Olympic rings.

Ever few years the same - 2024 again 金 kin/kane, gold and money is the kanji of the year - 5th time in 30 https://www.kanken.or.jp/kotoshinokanji/

top 20 https://www.kanken.or.jp/kotoshinokanji/former/2024.html

plenty of live coverage again of the writing ceremony at the Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto

 

[code_number3 698]

This year's Kanji of the Year somehow looked like the calligraphy on shogi piece.

 

[Kamitsuumi 391]

It's not a huge surprise. There are only so many ways (in general) to write 金 in cursive, and the shogi pieces have to have different calligraphy for the same 金 in order to differentiate the corresponding unpromoted piece. The last one (2021) was closer to nari-gin