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Usage of the character 岁

suì
[歲]
  • classifier for years (of age)
  • year
  • year (of crop harvests)
suì
[嵗]
  • variant of 歲/岁 (suì), year
  • years old
suìjìng
岁静
[歲靜]
  • (neologism) (slang) person who likes to pretend that everything is fine in their society (derived from 歲月靜好/岁月静好 (suìyuèjìnghǎo), "it is a time of peace and harmony")
Tàisuì
太岁
[太歲]
  • Tai Sui, God of the year
  • archaic name for the planet Jupiter 木星 ( Mùxīng)
  • nickname for sb who is the most powerful in an area
hèsuì
贺岁
[賀歲]
  • to extend New Year's greetings
  • to pay a New Year's visit
wànsuì
万岁
[萬歲]
  • Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!
  • Your Majesty
  • His Majesty
suìmù
岁暮
[歲暮]
  • end of the year
zúsuì
卒岁
[卒歲]
  • (literary) to get through the year
  • entire year
  • throughout the year
shǒusuì
守岁
[守歲]
  • to see in the New Year
  • to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
suìjì
岁计
[歲計]
  • annual budget
qǐsuì
绮岁
[綺歲]
  • youthful age
èsuì
恶岁
[惡歲]
  • lean year
  • year of bad harvest
mùsuì
暮岁
[暮歲]
  • the last days of the year
  • old age
suìlán
岁阑
[歲闌]
  • late season of a year
zúsuì
足岁
[足歲]
  • one's age (calculated as years from birth)
  • contrasted with 虛歲/虚岁 (xūsuì)
suìfèng
岁俸
[歲俸]
  • annual salary
qùsuì
去岁
[去歲]
  • last year
xúnsuì
旬岁
[旬歲]
  • full year
  • first birthday
jǐsuì
几岁
[幾歲]
  • how old are you? (familiar, or to a child)
wǎngsuì
往岁
[往歲]
  • in former years
  • in olden days
suìshu
岁数
[歲數]
  • age (number of years old)
suìchū
岁出
[歲出]
  • annual expenditure
suìyuè
岁月
[歲月]
  • years
  • time
shísuì
实岁
[實歲]
  • one's age (calculated as years from birth)
  • contrasted with 虛歲/虚岁 (xūsuì)
suìrù
岁入
[歲入]
  • annual revenue
  • annual income
xūsuì
虚岁
[虛歲]
  • 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 ( Lìchūn) each year, rather than on one's birthday.
  • contrasted with 實歲/实岁 (shísuì)
jīnsuì
今岁
[今歲]
  • (literary) this year
zhōusuì
周岁
[週歲]
  • one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
zǎosuì
早岁
[早歲]
  • one's early years
suìmò
岁末
[歲末]
  • end of the year
sìsuì
嗣岁
[嗣歲]
  • the following year
  • next year
niánsuì
年岁
[年歲]
  • years of age
  • age
suìchā
岁差
[歲差]
  • (astronomy) precession
suìxiū
岁修
[歲修]
  • start of the year
suìxù
岁序
[歲序]
  • succession of seasons
suìshí
岁时
[歲時]
  • season
  • time of the year
suìshǒu
岁首
[歲首]
  • start of the year
ān Tàisuì
安太岁
[安太歲]
  • to propitiate the god of the current year, Tai Sui 太歲/太岁 ( Tàisuì)
yāsuìqián
压岁钱
[壓歲錢]
  • money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
Yǒuyìwànsuì
友谊万岁
[友誼萬歲]
  • see 友誼地久天長/友谊地久天长 ( Yǒuyìdìjiǔtiāncháng)
rìjiǔsuìshēn
日久岁深
[日久歲深]
  • to last for an eternity (idiom)
suìbùwǒyǔ
岁不我与
[歲不我與]
  • Time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
suìyuèrúliú
岁月如流
[歲月如流]
  • the passage of the years
  • the flow of time
suìyuèrúsuō
岁月如梭
[歲月如梭]
  • time flies (idiom)
bǎisuìlǎorén
百岁老人
[百歲老人]
  • centenarian
zhēngróngsuìyuè
峥嵘岁月
[崢嶸歲月]
  • eventful years (idiom)
suìsuìpíng'ān
岁岁平安
[歲歲平安]
  • May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
suìjìyúchù
岁计余绌
[歲計餘絀]
  • annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
suìyuèzhēngróng
岁月峥嵘
[歲月崢嶸]
  • eventful years
  • momentous times
suìyuèliúshì
岁月流逝
[歲月流逝]
  • as time goes by (idiom)