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岁
嵗
suì
1. variant of [[歲|岁<suì>]], year
2. years old
HSK 1 Very Common • Top 1%

Character Breakdown (Single character)

岁
suì
year; years old, age; harvest
HSK 1 6 丶

Compound Words (20)

周岁
zhōusuì
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
今岁
jīnsuì
(literary) this year
去岁
qùsuì
last year
岁暮
suìmù
end of the year
岁月
suìyuè
years
HSK 6
岁末
suìmò
end of the year
岁计
suìjì
annual budget
岁阑
suìlán
late season of a year
岁首
suìshǒu
start of the year
绮岁
qǐsuì
youthful age
万岁
wànsuì
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!
虚岁
xūsuì
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<Lìchūn>]] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
贺岁
hèsuì
to extend New Year's greetings
足岁
zúsuì
method of calculating a person's age in years from birth
嗣岁
sìsuì
the following year
太岁
Tàisuì
Tai Sui, God of the year
守岁
shǒusuì
to see in the New Year
实岁
shísuì
method of calculating a person's age in years from birth
年岁
niánsuì
years of age
几岁
jǐsuì
some years

Example Sentences (4)

她今年四岁了。
tā jīnnián sì suì le.
She is four years old this year.
Text 2
她今年50岁了。
Tā jīnnián wǔshí suì le.
She is 50 this year.
Text 3
是去年来的，她姓王，二十八岁。
shì qùnián lái de,tā xìng wáng,èr shí bā suì.
She came last year, her surname is Wang, twenty-eight years old.
Text 4
她女儿今年20岁。
tā nǚ'ér jīnnián èrshí suì.
Her daughter is 20 years old this year.
Text 3

Alternate Entries

岁
suì
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)
HSK 1

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
771
Word Frequency Rank
1,015 of 84,292