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

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歲 (岁)

suì

Definition

age
李醫生今年40歲。

Doctor Li is 40 years old this year.

你幾歲了？

How old are you? (What's your age?)
classifier (for years when talking about age)
measure word
years (of age)
哥哥比妹妹大三歲。

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

End of the year

Character Decomposition

Compounds (9)

dirt; filth

cut; injure

to puke; to hiccup

of flourishing appearance; sound of a bicycle bell

see 噦噦

vast; expansive (as of water)

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huì

noise of bird's wings

weedy

minnow

Related words (36)

start of the year

annual salary

annual revenue; annual income

annual expenditure

the precession of the equinoxes

歲序

suì xù

succession of seasons

歲數

suì shu

age (number of years old)

歲時

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

歲月崢嶸

suì yuè zhēng róng

eventful years; momentous times

歲計餘絀

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)

嗣歲

sì suì

the following year; next year

守歲

shǒu suì

to see in the New Year

實歲

shí suì

method of calculating a person's age in years from birth; see also 虛歲; see also 足歲

years of age; age

in former years; in olden days

惡歲

è suì

lean year; year of bad harvest

早歲

zǎo suì

early years; adolescence

旬歲

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 足歲; see also 實歲

賀歲

hè suì

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

足歲

zú suì

method of calculating a person's age in years from birth; see also 虛歲; see also 實歲

壓歲錢

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)

二十六歲

èr shí liù suì

26 years old