Character

岁 suì

year; age; harvest

HSK 1 #772

岁修 suì xiū	start of the year
岁俸 suì fèng	annual salary
岁入 suì rù	annual revenue; annual income
岁出 suì chū	annual expenditure
岁差 suì chā	the precession of the equinoxes
岁序 suì xù	succession of seasons
岁时 suì shí	season; time of the year
岁月如梭 suì yuè rú suō	time flies (idiom)
岁月如流 suì yuè rú liú	the passage of the years; the flow of time
岁月峥嵘 suì yuè zhēng róng	eventful years; momentous times
岁月流逝 suì yuè liú shì	as time goes by (idiom)
岁岁平安 suì suì píng ān	May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
岁计 suì jì	annual budget
岁计余绌 suì jì yú chù	annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
岁阑 suì lán	late season of a year
岁首 suì shǒu	start of the year
百岁老人 bǎi suì lǎo rén	centenarian
绮岁 qǐ suì	youthful age
虚岁 xū suì	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 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.; as opposed to 足歲\|足岁[zu2 sui4]; see also 實歲\|实岁[shi2 sui4]
足岁 zú suì	method of calculating a person's age in years from birth; see also 虛歲\|虚岁[xu1 sui4]; see also 實歲\|实岁[shi2 sui4]
三岁 sān suì	three years old

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