忘年会

Japanese
Kanji in this term
忘 年 会
ぼう
Grade: 6		 ねん
Grade: 1		 かい
Grade: 2
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
忘年會 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

忘年 (bōnen, “forget the bad things of last year”) +‎ 会 (kai, “gathering”)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ぼーね​んかい [bòónéꜜǹkàì] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA(key): [bo̞ːnẽ̞ŋka̠i]

Noun

忘(ぼう)年(ねん)会(かい) • (bōnenkai) ←ばうねんくわい (baunenkwai)?

  1. a year-end party where people get drunk to "forget" about the bad things of last year
    • Hikaru Nakamura, “その90(きゅうじゅう)　松(まつ)田(だ)ハイツの秘(ひ)密(みつ)”, in [聖](セイント)☆おにいさん, volume 12 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha:
      忘(ぼう)年(ねん)会(かい)——…その年(とし)の苦(く)労(ろう)を分(わ)かちあった者(もの)たちと……苦(く)労(ろう)を忘(わす)れ来(らい)年(ねん)への英(えい)気(き)を養(やしな)う会(かい)である
      Bōnenkai——… Sono toshi no kurō o wakachiatta monotachi to…… Kurō o wasure rainen e no eiki o yashinau kai de aru
      The forgetting-last-year party… where those who have hardships from last year… gather to forget about them, and to look forward to the next year.
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