2022 in Japanese
二千二十二
Updated June 2026
2022 in Japanese is 二千二十二, written にせんにじゅうに in hiragana and read ni-sen-ni-jū-ni. Reiwa 4 (the year adulthood became 18)
NUMERAL
2022
KANJI
二千二十二
HIRAGANA
にせんにじゅうに
ROMAJI
ni-sen-ni-jū-ni
Year context
Reiwa 4 (令和4年). On 1 April 2022 Japan lowered the age of majority from 20 to 18, the first change to the threshold since 1876. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in Nara on 8 July 2022. Reiwa-era arithmetic: Reiwa 1 = 2019, so Reiwa 4 = 2022.
Real sentence examples
二〇二二年四月一日に成人年齢が十八歳に引き下げられました (ni-sen-ni-jū-ni-nen shi-gatsu tsuitachi ni seijin-nenrei ga jū-has-sai ni hikisageraremashita): on 1 April 2022 the age of majority was lowered to 18.
令和四年は西暦二千二十二年に当たります (reiwa yo-nen wa seireki ni-sen-ni-jū-ni-nen ni atarimasu): Reiwa 4 corresponds to the Western year 2022.
Pronunciation and morphology notes
2022 is ni-sen-ni-jū-ni. In imperial form, Reiwa 4 (令和4年, reiwa yo-nen — the year counter reads 四年 as yo-nen, not yon-nen). The 2022 change is why 18 (jū-hachi) now marks legal adulthood in Japan; see /n/18/.
Frequently asked questions
How do you write 2022 in Japanese?
2022 is written 二千二十二 in kanji and にせんにじゅうに in hiragana. In romaji (modified Hepburn) it is ni-sen-ni-jū-ni.
What is 2022 in hiragana?
2022 in hiragana is にせんにじゅうに. Hiragana spells out the reading ni-sen-ni-jū-ni phonetically; the kanji form is 二千二十二.
What is 2022 in the Japanese imperial calendar?
2022 is Reiwa 4 (令和4年) in the Japanese imperial (nengo) calendar.
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