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。
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Words Containing 岁
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
years
(literary) this year
(literary) to get through the year
last year
see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长[yǒu yì dì jiǔ tiān cháng]
the following year
Tai Sui, God of the year
to see in the New Year
to propitiate the god of the current year, Tai Sui 太歲|太岁[tài suì]
one's age (calculated as years from birth)
eventful years (idiom)
years of age
in former years
lean year
to last for an eternity (idiom)
one's early years
full year
the last days of the year
Time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
start of the year
annual salary
annual revenue
annual expenditure
(astronomy) precession
succession of seasons
season
end of the year
time flies (idiom)
the passage of the years
eventful years
as time goes by (idiom)
end of the year
May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
annual budget
annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
late season of a year
(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\)
start of the year
centenarian
youthful age
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!
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.
to extend New Year's greetings
one's age (calculated as years from birth)
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)