虚岁 in English xu1 sui4 Meaning

Meanings

  • one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (that is to say 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[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
  • contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]

Simplified Characters

Traditional Characters

Pinyin

xu1 sui4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

xu1emptiness sui4variant of 歲|岁[sui4], year