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  *岁* | 岁* | *岁
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)
HSK 1
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  *岁* | 岁* | *岁
variant of 歲|岁, year / years old
HSK 1
to extend New Year's greetings / to pay a New Year's visit
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
years of age / age
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
to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
Tai Sui, God of the year / archaic name for the planet Jupiter 木星 / nickname for sb who is the most powerful in an area
last year
(literary) to get through the year / entire year / throughout the year
one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁
the last days of the year / old age
one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁
lean year / year of bad harvest
(literary) this year
one's early years
how old are you? (familiar, or to a child)
in former years / in olden days
the following year / next year
to propitiate the god of the current year, Tai Sui 太歲|太岁
full year / first birthday
youthful age
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)! / Your Majesty / His Majesty


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