Meaning of ２浪してるんだ


I want to know what ２浪してるんだ means, also I assume the "2" means that the kanji
is repeated twice, right?

I thought the hiragana at the side is telling me how to read this kanji (へえ)
but looking up on romajidesu.com I see that this kanji "on" reading is rō
(ロウrō)

The sentence that is coming after that is 根性 あるねえ [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7mLDB.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7mLDB.png)




As for へえ that is at the side of 浪, it is not the _furigana_ that tells how to
read the kanji as you know, but it is the first part of the sentence. So, the
whole sentence should be read like へえ ２浪してるんだ 根性あるねぇ.

**Edit:** As for ２浪, it is also written as 二浪 and both are read as _ni-roh_ or
にろう. [２浪]{にろう} or [二浪]{にろう} means a person that has been "浪人｛ろうにん｝ _rohnin_ "
for two consecutive years. The meaning of a **_rohnin_** is
[here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dnin). It is mainly used for the
high school alumni who have failed twice in the entrance examination of the
university/college that they desired to enter as is explained in another
answer. Not so many but it is also used for those who have failed to find a
job in a desired company. _Rohnin_ seems to be a peculiar custom in Japan, but
since it is an ordinary word for Japanese, please understand it as one of
Japanese words and also Japanese customs to learn.

As for the manga, when I look at the resume, the person is a man and 27 years
old. He is going to take the employment exam (in this case, an interview for
job) in order to get a job at his desired company.  
In the manga, the interviewer knows that the job seeker failed twice in the
entrance examination of the university he desired by reading the record of the
resume, so the interviewer said to the job seeker admiringly that "2浪してるんだ
根性あるねぇ. _You experienced rohnin for two years, right? I know you have enough
guts._ "

In general, if we fail in the employment examination of the company or
government office we want to work for, we will give up them and work for
another company and the like. However, if the person can not give up them,
they will wait for one year by becoming _rohnin_ s or １浪 and take the
employment exam of them again in the next year. If they still fail in the
exam, they will also become _rohnin_ s or ２浪 and take the exam of them in the
next year.




We call the people who can enter university soon after graduating from high
school 現役.

一浪 means "failing college entrance exams in the year of graduating from high
school and retaking them a year later".

So 二浪 means "failing college entrance exams which he retook a year after
graduating from high school and retaking them another year later", that is to
say, it took him two years to enter university after graduating from high
school.

