岁 suì

year; age; harvest

HSK 1 #772

DEFINITIONS

  • year
  • age
  • harvest
  • variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year
  • years old
  • classifier for years (of age)
  • year
  • year (of crop harvests)

STROKES

WORDS

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 (age)
四岁 sì suì four years old
十七岁 shí qī suì seventeen years old
二十岁 èr shí suì twenty years old
九十岁 jiǔ shí suì ninety years old; being at the age of ninety
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