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› 歲
歲
seoi3
Mandarin: sui4
Simplified: 岁
noun
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years old; age
noun
Words containing 歲
歲月如流
seoi3
jyut6
jyu4
lau4
the passage of the years; the flow of time
歲數
seoi3
sou3
age
足歲
zuk1
seoi3
method of calculating a person's age in years from birth / see also 虛歲, 實�
虛歲
heoi1
seoi3
traditional Asian method of calculating a person's age, which holds that a baby
幾十歲人
gei2
sap6
seoi3
jan4
middle-aged or old people
毛主席萬歲
mou4
zyu2
zik6
maan6
seoi3
"Long live Chairman Mao"
十九歲
sap6
gau2
seoi3
19 years old
客歲
haak3
seoi3
Last year
三歲定八十
saam1
seoi3
ding6
baat3
sap6
[[three years old determines eighty years old]] one's character is formed at a y
長命百歲
coeng4
meng6
baak3
seoi3
to live a long life
長命百歲
coeng4
ming6
baak3
seoi3
live to be a hundred; live to a ripe old age
歲歲平安
seoi3
seoi3
ping4
on1
peace all year round
八十歲返頭嫁
baat3
sap6
seoi3
faan1
tau4
gaa3
lit. get remarried at the age of eighty, meaning to bring trouble oneself
光輝歲月
gwong1
fai1
seoi3
jyut6
an iconic song sang during pro-democratic movements | glorious days
五六十歲
ng5
luk6
sap6
seoi3
(in one's) fifties or sixties (years of age)
崢嶸歲月
zaang1
wing4
seoi3
jyut6
uncommon, special years and months of on's life; eventful years
安太歲
on1
taai3
seoi3
Appeasing the God of Planet Jupiter: during the Lunar New Year, the temples in T
十八歲卜卜脆
sap6
baat3
seoi3
bok1
bok1
ceoi3
refers to sexually mature girls (lit., "18 years old and crispy")
賀歲
ho6
seoi3
celebrate the new year, Examples of 賀歲:賀歲片;賀歲鉅獻;賀歲�
歲晚
seoi3
maan5
end of or last few weeks of the lunar year
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