毎年
まいとし
hepburn maitoshi
every year
Part of speech · noun / adverb
Pattern visualization
每every
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年year
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Examples
- 毎年同じ場所で会う。We meet at the same place every year.
- 毎年健康診断を受ける。I take a yearly health checkup.
Collocations
毎年 (maitoshi, every year)毎年恒例 (maitoshi kourei, annual ritual)毎年同じ (maitoshi onaji, same every year)毎日 (mainichi, every day)毎月 (maitsuki, every month)
Mnemonic
まいとし — 毎年, a Sino-Japanese root 毎 with the Yamato reading とし. Unpack the two kanji ── 毎 (every) + 年 (year) = 'every year'. The kanji root 毎, multiplied by time units, forms a family of frequency adverbs ── 毎日 mainichi (every day), 毎週 maishuu (every week), 毎月 maitsuki (every month), 毎年 maitoshi (every year), 毎晩 maiban (every night). Learn one root, 毎, and five frequency-adverb cells fill at once ── the kanji-LEGO assembly seen in 来月 works here too. A reading trap: 年 has two voices, とし (kun) and ねん (on) ── 毎年 is まいとし (kun) in speech, まいねん (on) in formal documents and news. Both are correct; register decides. The Korean readings mae / nyeon are sister to the onyomi まい / ねん.
Quick check
Difference between maitoshi and mainen readings?