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歲

suì

year

Phonosemantic compound. 步 represents the meaning and 戉 represents the sound.

Components
步 meaning component

步  Meaning component

bù

  

step

戉 sound component

戉  Sound component

yuè

  

battle-axe

Evolution

歲 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
歲 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
歲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
歲 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
歲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

岁 (歲) 

suì

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

Most common words with 歲
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 4 characters (0 verified)

穢 噦 鱥 濊

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-qʷʰat-s

sjwejH

suì

year


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 65.7697% of movies

528th most common character in movies

772nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

岁

Unicode

U+6B72

Shuowen

“歲，木星也。越歷二十八宿，宣徧陰陽，十二月一次。从步，戌聲。律歷書名五星為五步。”


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