虛heoi1歲seoi3

English

1. 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.
2. contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
3. age of a person, calculated with the East Asian traditional method of counting newborns as 1 year oldunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 東亞傳統歲數嘅計法，一出世就當一歲unreviewed?

Examples

• 他虚岁三十七岁。

  According to East Asian reckoning, he's thirty-seven.

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