岁 (suì): meaning and stroke order
岁 (suì) means classifier for years (of age), year, year (of crop harvests), variant of 岁, year.
岁
- Simplified
- 岁
- Traditional
- 歲, 嵗
- Pinyin
- suì
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Stroke order of 岁
岁
- suì variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year; years old
- suì classifier for years (of age); year
- 6 strokes
- Traditional form: 嵗
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Meaning of 岁
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suì
Traditional 歲
- classifier for years (of age)
- year
- year (of crop harvests)
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suì
Traditional 嵗
- variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year
- years old
Radical and structure
- 岁
- Radical 山 (Kangxi radical 46) · 6 strokes · 山 on top, 夕 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
岁 in our stories
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她生日那天，快递送来一个大包裹，里面是一本相册，从她们十岁到二十岁的照片都在里面。
tā shēngrì nà tiān kuàidì sònglái yí gè dà bāoguǒ lǐmiàn shì yì běn xiàngcè cóng tāmen shí suì dào èrshí suì de zhàopiàn dōu zài lǐmiàn
On her birthday a big parcel arrived: an album with their photos from age ten to twenty.
From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4
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学校只有两间教室，五十多个学生，最小的才六岁。
xuéxiào zhǐ yǒu liǎng jiān jiàoshì wǔshí duō gè xuésheng zuì xiǎo de cái liù suì
The school had only two classrooms and fifty-odd pupils; the youngest was just six.
From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5
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他的奶奶今年八十六岁，只会说温州话，连普通话都听不太懂，更别说法语了。
tā de nǎinai jīnnián bāshíliù suì zhǐ huì shuō Wēnzhōuhuà lián pǔtōnghuà dōu tīng bú tài dǒng gèng bié shuō Fǎyǔ le
His grandmother was eighty-six and spoke only Wenzhou dialect; she barely understood Mandarin, let alone French.
From the story An old bracelet HSK 6
Stories using 岁
- Twelve hours apart HSK 4
- English on the basketball court HSK 5
- An old bracelet HSK 6
- Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).