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歲
歲
Translingual
| Traditional | 歲 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 歳 |
| Simplified | 岁 |
Han character
歲 (radical 77 止+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹竹 (YMIHH), four-corner 21253, composition ⿱止⿵戌𣥂)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 577, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16326
- Dae Jaweon: page 967, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1443, character 20
- Unihan data for U+6B72
Chinese
| trad. | 歲 | |
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| simp. | 岁 | |
| alt. forms |
亗 𫞓 |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 歲
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (歲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 噦 | *qʰʷaːds, *qʷrad, *qʷad |
| 翽 | *qʰʷaːds |
| 鐬 | *qʰʷaːds |
| 濊 | *qʰʷaːds, *qʷaːds, *qʷads, *qʰʷaːd |
| 歲 | *sqʰʷads, *sqʰʷad |
| 劌 | *kʷrads |
| 顪 | *qʰʷads |
| 穢 | *qʷads |
| 薉 | *qʷads |
| 獩 | *qʷads |
| 饖 | *qʷads |
| 奯 | *qʰʷaːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷads, *sqʰʷad) : semantic 步 + phonetic 戉 (OC *ɢʷad).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): se
- Min Dong (BUC): huói / suói
- Min Nan (POJ): hòe / hè / sòe
- Wu (Wiktionary): soe (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: sui4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
- IPA (key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: seoi3
- Yale: seui
- Cantonese Pinyin: soey3
- IPA (key): /sɵy̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: se
- Hakka Romanization System: se
- Hagfa Pinyim: se4
- IPA: /se⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: huói / suói
- IPA (key): /huɔi²¹³/, /suɔi²¹³/
- Note: huói - vernacular; suói - literary.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hòe / hè / sòe
- Tâi-lô: huè / hè / suè
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoex, hex, soex
- IPA (Xiamen): /hue²¹/, /he²¹/, /sue²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hue⁴¹/, /he⁴¹/, /sue⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue²¹/, /he²¹/, /sue²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /hue¹¹/, /he¹¹/, /sue¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue²¹/, /he²¹/, /sue²¹/
- Note: hòe, hè - vernacular; sòe - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: soe (T2)
- IPA (key): /sø³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 歲 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /suei⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /suei⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /suei⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /suei²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /sue⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /suei³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /suei²¹/ | |
| Xining | /suɨ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /suei¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /suei¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /suei²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /sei³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /suei¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /suei²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /suei²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /suəi⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /se⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /suei⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /suei³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /suei⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /sø³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /se̞⁵¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /sz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /sz̩⁴²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian |
/ɕye³²⁴/ /ɕy³²⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /se⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /sei⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /səi⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sui⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sui⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /se⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /søy³³/ |
| Nanning | /ɬui³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /søy³³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/sue²¹/ /he²¹/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /huɔi²¹²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) |
/xuɛ³³/ /sy³³/ |
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| Shantou (Min Nan) |
/sue²¹³/ /hue²¹³/ |
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| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/sui³⁵/ /hue³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 歲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (36) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 相銳切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siuᴇiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/sʷiɛiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/siuæiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/swiajH/ |
| Li Rong |
/siuɛiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/sĭwɛiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/si̯wɛiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
suì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 歲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
suì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ sjwejH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*s-qʷʰat-s/ |
| English | year |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
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| Character | 歲 | 歲 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 12165 | 12175 |
| Phonetic component |
歲 | 歲 |
| Rime group |
祭 | 月 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
雪 | |
| Old Chinese |
/*sqʰʷads/ | /*sqʰʷad/ |
| Notes | 甲金文戉分化字，說文戌聲非 | |
Definitions
歲
- a year of the duodecennial Jovian orbital cycle or of the sexagenary cycle based upon it, (chiefly) used in discussion of age.
- Tai Sui, the god representing each of these years
- age
- time; period
- crop harvests of the year
Usage note
Ages in 歲 are traditionally reckoned using the Chinese lunar calendar, beginning with 1 at the moment of birth and increasing not during birthdays but at the Chinese New Year.
See also
Compounds
Derived terms from 歲
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Japanese
Kanji
歲
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 歳)
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