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虚岁
xū​suì

nominal age

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
虚岁 虛歲 xū​suì
nominal age
Traditional Chinese age reckoning where a person is one year old at birth and adds a year at each Lunar New Year; this age is usually one or two years higher than one's actual age.

Frequency

Written text
0.313 per million

Cross-References

Antonym

  • 实岁 shí​suì
  • 周岁 zhōu​suì
  • 足岁 zú​suì

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)