| 虚岁 |
xū suì |
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 实岁 |
| 虚 |
xū |
emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain |
| 岁 |
suì |
variant of 岁, year / years old |
| 岁 |
suì |
classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests) |