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
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
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
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 平成4年 | 1992 |
| 昭58 | 1983 |
| 平5 | 1993, with a full-width digit |
| 令元 | 2019 |
| 1992年 invalid | Gregorian year |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 和暦の年 |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/year_jp_era - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/JP/datetime/year_jp_era.yamlon GitHub