岁 - suì - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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岁 (歲)

suì

Definition

age
李医生今年40岁。

Doctor Li is 40 years old this year.

你几岁了？

How old are you? (What's your age?)
classifier (for years when talking about age)
measure word
years (of age)
哥哥比妹妹大三岁。

The big brother is 3 years older than his little sister.
year (literary)
岁末

End of the year

Character Decomposition

Compounds (5)

dirt; filth

cut; injure

to puke; to hiccup

see 哕哕

noise of bird's wings

Related words (36)

start of the year

annual salary

annual revenue; annual income

annual expenditure

the precession of the equinoxes

岁序

suì xù

succession of seasons

岁数

suì shu

age (number of years old)

岁时

suì shí

season; four seasons; times and seasons; time of the year

end of the year

years; time

end of the year

annual budget

late season of a year

start of the year

the passage of the years; the flow of time

岁月峥嵘

suì yuè zhēng róng

eventful years; momentous times

岁计余绌

suì jì yú chù

annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)

(literary) this year

some years; How many years?; How old are you? (familiar, or to child, equivalent to 多大 for older person)

last year

one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)

嗣岁

sì suì

the following year; next year

守岁

shǒu suì

to see in the New Year

实岁

shí suì

method of calculating a person's age in years from birth; see also 虚岁; see also 足岁

years of age; age

in former years; in olden days

恶岁

è suì

lean year; year of bad harvest

早岁

zǎo suì

early years; adolescence

旬岁

xún suì

full year; first birthday

youthful age

one's age (according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning, i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived); nominal age (determined by the traditional method, which considers a person one year old at birth, and adds a year each lunar new year); as opposed to 足岁; see also 实岁

贺岁

hè suì

to extend New Year's greetings; to pay a New Year's visit

足岁

zú suì

method of calculating a person's age in years from birth; see also 虚岁; see also 实岁

压岁钱

yā suì qián

lucky money (money given to children as a gift during lunar New Year); money given to children (as a lunar New year present)

二十六岁

èr shí liù suì

26 years old