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歲時
suì shí
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season;
time of the year
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歲暮
suì mù
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end of the year
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歲月
suì yuè
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years;
time
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歲月如梭
suì yuè rú suō
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time flies (idiom)
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歲月如流
suì yuè rú liú
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the passage of the years;
the flow of time
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歲月崢嶸
suì yuè zhēng róng
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eventful years;
momentous times
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歲月流逝
suì yuè liú shì
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as time goes by (idiom)
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歲末
suì mò
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end of the year
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歲歲平安
suì suì píng ān
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May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
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歲計
suì jì
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annual budget
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歲計餘絀
suì jì yú chù
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annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
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歲闌
suì lán
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late season of a year
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歲首
suì shǒu
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start of the year
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百歲老人
bǎi suì lǎo rén
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centenarian
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綺歲
qǐ suì
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youthful age
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萬歲
wàn suì
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Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!;
Your Majesty;
His Majesty
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虛歲
xū suì
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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]
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賀歲
hè suì
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to extend New Year's greetings;
to pay a New Year's visit
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足歲
zú suì
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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]
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週歲
zhōu suì
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one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
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五十五歲
wǔ shí wǔ suì
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age fifty-five
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