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  *字* | 字* | *字
letter / symbol / character / word / CL: 個|个 / courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
HSK 1
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  *岁* | 岁* | *岁
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)
HSK 1
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
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elderly / old age / autumn of one's years
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from childhood; from a young age
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middle age
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  *行* | 行* | *行
(bound form) row; line / (bound form) line of business; trade; profession / (bound form) commercial firm / (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row; (Tw) column / classifier for rows or lines
HSK 3
modern times / modern age / modern era
HSK 3
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  *旧* | 旧* | *旧
old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
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  *代* | 代* | *代
to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
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age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
HSK 3
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
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(a person's) age / CL: , 個|个
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the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
age (number of years old)
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age limit / fixed number of years
HSK 7-9
(of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
HSK 7-9
to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents
HSK 7-9
wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
HSK 7-9
old / aged
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for many generations / generation / era / age
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  *世* | 世* | *世
life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble
spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles)
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  *纪* | 纪* | *纪
order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle
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  *龄* | 龄* | *龄
age / length of experience, membership etc
timeliness / period of viability or validity / (law) prescription; limitation / (metallurgy) aging
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  *庚* | 庚* | *庚
age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta
lasting for ages / long drawn out / remote in time or space / unhurried / a great number (of events) / preposterous / pensive
medieval / Middle Ages
aged
hoary head / old age
mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc)
a flourishing period / period of prosperity / a golden age
school age
golden age
of the same age
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  *寿* | 寿* | *寿
long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary
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  *皓* | 皓* | *皓
(bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)
last phase (of an age)
eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
(of wine) aged / (of debts etc) old; longstanding
(familiar) elder brother
years / time / age
(of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age
venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)
generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
to live to the (ripe) age of
without doubt / with full self-confidence / forty years of age
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
this life / this age
one's declining years; one's old age
years of age / age
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
all ages
indistinct / fuzzy / blurred with age
(a person's) current age
to age prematurely / premature senescence
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
(dialect) today / (literary) the present; this age
men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages
of age / of the appropriate age
entire year / throughout the year / age at death
to have attained the age of
greasy food; oily food / (of food) greasy; oily; fatty / (neologism c. 2017) (of a middle-aged man) obnoxious; pretentious; vulgar
aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged
fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
childbearing age
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
(in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc)
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
for a long time / for ages
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
(in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age
old / aged / (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous / forceful
age and experience / seniority
infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)
the present age / in office / the current office holder
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 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
age (of a young woman)
throughout the ages
married woman of mature age
to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
extremely aged / gray and venerable
(of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
glacial epoch; ice age
(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
aged; senile
respect the aged
dim sight of the aged / doddering / senile
old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age
length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age

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