歲
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Translingual
Traditional | 歲 |
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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)
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 | |
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 歲 | ||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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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
Definitions
歲
- (Classical Chinese) Jupiter (planet)
- a year of the duodecennial Jovian orbital cycle or of the sexagenary cycle based upon it, (particularly) used in discussion of age.
- 子曰:「歲寒,然後知松柏之後彫也。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Analects of Confucius, circa 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Zǐ yuē: “Suì hán, rán hòu zhī sōngbǎi zhī hòu diāo yě.” [Pinyin]
- The Master said, "When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves."
子曰:“岁寒,然后知松柏之后凋也。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- Tai Sui, the god representing each of these years
- age
- time; period
- crop harvests of the year
Usage notes
Ages in 歲 are traditionally reckoned using the Chinese lunar calendar, considered as 1 year old at the moment of birth and increasing not during birthdays, but at the Chinese New Year.
Compounds
Derived terms from 歲
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Further reading
- “Entry #9664”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
歲
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Usage notes
This character lacks JIS support and is not used in Japan. The character 歳 (U+6B73) is used instead.
Korean
Vietnamese
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