岁 - Dong Chinese dictionary

suì

year

Phonosemantic compound. 步 represents the meaning and 戉 represents the sound. The simplified character 岁 was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 歲.

Components

山 Simplified component

shān

mountain

Shorthand for the 步 component in the traditional character 歲.

夕 Simplified component

xī

evening

Shorthand for the 戉 component in the traditional character 歲.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

岁 (歲)

suì

year; age; harvest; classifier for years (of age); year (of crop harvests)

岁 (嵗)

suì

variant of 歲|岁[suì], year; years old

Most common words with 岁

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	岁	year
	万岁	Your Majesty
	岁月	years
	岁数	age (number of years old)
	贺岁	to pay a New Year's visit

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

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Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 65.7697% of movies

528th most common character in movies

772nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Traditional	歲
Unicode	U+5C81

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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