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歲 (岁)

suì

Definition

year
李醫生今年40歲。

Doctor Li is 40 this year.
classifier (for years when talking about age)
measure word
years (of age)
age

Character Decomposition

Compounds (9)

dirt; filth

cut; injure

to puke; to hiccup

of flourishing appearance; sound of a bicycle bell

vast; expansive (as of water)

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

succession of seasons

age (number of years old)

season; 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

suì yuè rú liú

the passage of the years; the flow of time

suì yuè zhēng róng

eventful years; momentous times

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)

the following year; next year

to see in the New Year

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

lean year; year of bad harvest

early years; adolescence

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). In this system, a person's age is one year at birth, and increases by one year at the beginning of the first solar term; as opposed to 足歲; see also 實歲

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

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

money given to children as new year present

èr shí liù suì

26 years old

bǎi suì lǎo rén

centenarian

Idioms (2)

suì yuè liú shì

as time goes by (idiom)

rì jiǔ suì shēn

to last for an eternity (idiom)

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