Character Details
| years in life;[how] old;age;classifier for years (of age) | Ascii: 20160 | w518 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 岁 | suì | sway | 4 | 山 (mountain) + 夕 (evening) → year; age | 岁 link | ||||||
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When I reach the old years of age I'll spend many evenings in the quiet mountains. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
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| - I am 28 years old | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 尸 | shī | dead body | body, corpse | reclining body shape | 尺 尾 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 山 (mountain) + 夕 (evening) → year; age | 山 (semantic origin) | 夕 (phonetic) | phonetic from 夕 | ||||||||