去きょ年ねん

Written forms

• 去年Usage99%iUsage for this spelling across all readings, not one reading alone.
  • きょねん

    Standard kanji spelling for 'last year'.

  • こぞ

    out-dated reading
• こぞUsage<1%
  out-dated reading

  Obsolete kana usage; not used in modern Japanese.

Kanji

• 去gone, past, quit
• 年year, counter for years

Similar words

• 昨さく年ねん

  More formal than 去年; common in written language and formal speech.

• 今年ことし

  Means 'this year'; the current year.

• 来らい年ねん

  Means 'next year'; the following year.

Etymology

Compound of 去 (kyo, 'past') and 年 (nen, 'year'). The reading こぞ is an older form now considered obsolete.