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虚岁

xū suì

Definitions

  1. 1. 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.
  2. 2. contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shí suì]

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Child Words of 虚岁

岁
suì

classifier for years (of age)

虚
xū

emptiness