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虚岁
虛歲
xūsuì
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 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.
2.
as opposed to [[足歲|足岁<zúsuì>]]
3.
see also [[實歲|实岁<shísuì>]]
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