Every year one kanji character is chosen as the kanji of the year which depects the social condition of the year. It started in 1995 and it is chosen on December 12, which is the day of kanji. But this year it was chosen today.
The kanji of the year 2010 is sho (暑), literally means heat. This year the extremely hot days lasted for 3 months or so. And 33 miners in Chile were rescued from the hot tunnel. Hayabusa (はやぶさ), the unmanned spacecraft came back from the world of 10,000 degrees centigrade and so on.
14,537 people out of 285,406 chosen this kanji character. The second one was chu (中), literally means China or middle.
The kanji of the year 2009 was shin (新), literally new.
How would you like to describe your year 2010?
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