歲

See also 歳, 岁, 亗, and 嵗

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 步 + phonetic 戌

Han character

歲 (radical 77 止+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹竹 (YMIHH), four-corner 2125₃, composition ⿱止⿵戌𣥂)

1. year
2. age
3. harvest

Descendants

• 濊, 饖, 劌, 噦, 薉, 翽, 奯

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

歲 (simplified 岁, jyutping seoi3, Yale seui3)

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Japanese

Kanji

歲

Readings

• On: せい (sei), さい (sai)
• Kun: とし (toshi), よわい (yowai)

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Korean

Hanja

歲 (hangeul 세, revised se, McCune-Reischauer se, Yale sey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

歲 (simplified 岁, pinyin suì (sui4), Wade-Giles sui⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歲 (tuế, tuổi)