虚岁trad.虛歲
xūsuì
- 1.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[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
- 2.contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
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