Hey,
Does anyone know the meaning of this kanji?
I have been having some trouble identifying it.
Thanks!
歳 (age, year, years old)
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Jisho has a great way to search kanji by means of selecting the radicals it is made up of, if you run into a similar problem in the future.
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It isn’t really that obfuscated. You should try Google Translate App with your mobile phone camera.
I didn’t see a “What’s this Kanji?” general thread, so hopefully it’s ok to piggyback off this thread.
I’m having a really hard time figuring out what this kanji is supposed to be. I see a wing, a barb, and maybe a rice paddy radical, but I can’t find this kanji in any dictionary.
The word means “defeat” or something similar, this is a you killed the boss message in a game from 1987. There’s been some other odd kanji use as well, like using 街 instead of 町.
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It’s kind of hard to see from how the pixels touch each other, but it’s like this. From the full context it would be easy to tell, I think, because you understood the meaning.
Both are read まち, but they have different nuances, so I wouldn’t consider it strange
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I hadn’t seen it before, but that comes down to my own inexperience I suppose.
Your edit completely answers my question. The way they were blurring together threw me off.
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Ah, yeah, you can see it in the definitions here
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It must be one of those kanji that I used to know but forgot. I’m not sure how I thought 街 was something new. Regardless, thank you very much for your help.
But WK doesn’t teach the まち reading, so that’s a new one on me too. 
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