Kana: さい

years old

Example sentence

弟は五歳です。

おとうとはごさいです。

My little brother is five years old.

What 歳 means

(さい) is a Japanese word meaning “years old”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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