Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- suì
English
- year
- classifier for years (of age)
- years of age
- age
- year
- harvest
- year (of crop harvests)
粵語
- 用嚟計算年紀嘅單位，例如一個人出世咗十年，咁佢就係十歲
As a component in · 38
Variants
Words containing 歲
- 萬歲maan6 seoi3
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!
- 年歲nin4 seoi3
years of age
- 歲月seoi3 jyut6
years
- 歲晚seoi3 maan5
end of or last few weeks of the lunar year
- 歲數seoi3 sou3
age (number of years old)
- 太歲taai3 seoi3
Tai Sui, God of the year
- 賀歲ho6 seoi3
to extend New Year's greetings
- 虛歲heoi1 seoi3
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[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
- 往歲wong5 seoi3
in former years
- 今歲gam1 seoi3
(literary) this year
- 週歲zau1 seoi3
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
- 足歲zuk1 seoi3
one's age (calculated as years from birth)
- 惡歲ok3 seoi3
lean year
- 守歲sau2 seoi3
to see in the New Year
- 壓歲錢aat3 seoi3 cin4
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
- 歲序seoi3 zeoi6
succession of seasons
- 長命百歲coeng4 meng6 baak3 seoi3
(idiom) to live to be a hundred years old (often used as a blessing or wish for longevity)
- 歲時seoi3 si4
season
- 去歲heoi3 seoi3
last year
- 歲出seoi3 ceot1
annual expenditure
- 綺歲ji2 seoi3
youthful age
- 同歲tung4 seoi3
to be the same age
- 早歲zou2 seoi3
one's early years
- 歲入seoi3 jap6
annual revenue