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虛歲
简 虚岁 · 繁 虛歲Mandarin · pinyin xū suì
Meanings
- 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 Lì chūn each year, rather than on one's birthday.
- contrasted with 實歲 shí suì
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noun
- nominal age (reckoned by the traditional method, i.e. considering a person one year old at birth and adding a year each lunar new year)
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