岁 suì — year
岁
Level 1 · Common HSK 2 #436
suì sui4
Detailed explanation
- noun (形声。小篆字形。从步,戌( xū)声。“步”有经历的意思。古音“岁、戌”迭韵。本义:岁星。即木星)
- noun Jupiter e.g 岁君 · 岁次
- noun year e.g 岁祲 · 岁腊 · 岁考 · 岁事 · 岁晏 · 岁华
- noun age e.g 三岁小孩 · 八十岁的老奶奶 · 两岁的牛儿正当年
- noun time e.g 岁光 · 岁华
- noun year for crops;year's harvest e.g 歉岁 岁恶 · 岁登 · 丰岁 · 岁熟 · 岁稔 · 岁丰
- noun New Year e.g 岁旦 · 岁朝 · 岁旦酒 · 岁夕 · 岁仗
Related words
- 岁月 years; time
- 周岁 full one year old; full age (by birthdays)
- 万岁 Long live!; Your Majesty
- 岁数 age
- 年岁 years of age/age
- 岁末 end of the year
- 贺岁档 the Lunar New Year movie season
- 压岁钱 money given to children as new year present
- 守岁 to stay up on New Year's Eve
- 贺岁片 New Year film; Spring Festival blockbuster
- 岁尾 end of the year; year's end
- 峥嵘岁月 eventful, extraordinary years
- 同岁 to be the same age
- 去岁 last year
- 岁首 beginning of the year
- 岁暮 end of the year
- 虚岁 nominal age (counting one year at birth and adding one at each lunar New Year)
- 终岁 all year round; the whole year
- 长命百岁 to live to a ripe old age (a birthday wish)
- 辞岁 to see out the old year on New Year's Eve