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Year in a Japanese era (wareki)

ID year_jp_era

Pattern of yearNot PIIDraft

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Year written with a Japanese era name and the year of that era, in full (平成4年) or with the one-character abbreviation of the era (昭58, 平5, 令元). 元 stands for the first year of an era. Municipal data often uses it for fiscal years (年度). Digits may be full-width (平9).

Pattern of
Year year
Categories
Date and time
Countries
Japan
Languages
Japanese
Quality
80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
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Regular expression

^(?:明治|大正|昭和|平成|令和|明|大|昭|平|令)\s*(?:元|[0-90-9]{1,2})(?:年度?)?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
平成4年1992
昭581983
平51993, with a full-width digit
令元2019
1992年 invalidGregorian year

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
Japanese和暦の年

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