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Every four years, an added day on February appears. When there’s a 29th day on February, the year is called a leap year.
A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year.
A person born on February 29 may be called a “leapling“. In common years they usually celebrate their birthdays on 28 February or 1 March. For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In some situations, March 1 is used as the birthday in a non-leap year since it then is the day just after February 28.
In Japanese, leap year translates to the word uruudoshi.
Uruudoshi is composed of 閏（uruu)+年（toshi)=year. The kanji “uruu” is structured of two kanji 門（mon)=gate and 王（ou)=king, it ’s an deogram. [In leap year the king would stay inside the gate, never go out, it's not regular thing.] That is to say “urudoshi” has the meaning of an irregular year.
In short.
uruu = leap
doshi = toshi = year
‘uruu bi’ = leap day (=bi)
‘uruu byou’ = leap second (=byou)
‘uruu zuki’ = leap year’s feb.
Sources: Wiki, Yahoo! Answers
