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  *岁* | 岁* | *岁
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)
HSK 1
years / time
HSK 5
age (number of years old)
HSK 6
succession of seasons
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)! / Your Majesty / His Majesty
how old are you? (familiar, or to a child)
the passage of the years / the flow of time
as time goes by (idiom)
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
end of the year
eventful years (idiom)
one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday)
to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
eventful years / momentous times
annual salary
one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁
one's early years
years of age / age
time flies (idiom)
to propitiate the god of the current year, Tai Sui 太歲|太岁
season / time of the year
one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁
last year
Tai Sui, God of the year / archaic name for the planet Jupiter 木星 / nickname for sb who is the most powerful in an area
annual repairs and maintenance
centenarian
lean year / year of bad harvest
(literary) beginning of the year
(literary) this year
Time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
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 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
the last days of the year / old age
annual expenditure
start of the year
(literary) to get through the year / entire year / throughout the year
annual revenue / annual income
annual budget
to extend New Year's greetings / to pay a New Year's visit
full year / first birthday
the following year / next year
end of the year
(idiom) for a long period of time; for a number of years
(neologism) (slang) person who willfully ignores societal problems while maintaining a facade of blissful normalcy (derived from 歲月靜好|岁月静好, "it is a time of peace and harmony")
May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
annual budgetary surplus or deficit (accountancy)
youthful age
(astronomy) precession
late season of a year
in former years / in olden days


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