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岁
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Definitions
- 1. classifier for years (of age)
- 2. year
- 3. year (of crop harvests)
Example Sentences
1 shownMuiriel现在20 岁 了。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 岁
annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
centenarian
end of the year
to see in the New Year
annual expenditure
(literary) this year
the passage of the years
annual salary
last year
youthful age
annual budget
Time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
Tai Sui, God of the year
(literary) to get through the year
one's age (calculated as years from birth)
years of age
(neologism) (slang) person who likes to pretend that everything is fine in their society (derived from 歲月靜好|岁月静好[suì yuè jìng hǎo], \it is a time of peace and harmony\)
the last days of the year
late season of a year
to extend New Year's greetings
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 at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[lì chūn] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
succession of seasons
(astronomy) precession
in former years
full year
May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
start of the year
as time goes by (idiom)
lean year
the following year
eventful years
time flies (idiom)
eventful years (idiom)
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
to last for an eternity (idiom)
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
end of the year
season
start of the year
one's age (calculated as years from birth)
see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长[yǒu yì dì jiǔ tiān cháng]
to propitiate the god of the current year, Tai Sui 太歲|太岁[tài suì]
years
annual revenue
one's early years