Chinese symbol for “years”
岁月
suì yuè
Traditional: 歲月
years; time
The closest CC-CEDICT match for years is 岁月 (suì yuè), defined as: years; time.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “years”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 岁月.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万岁 (萬歲) | wàn suì | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty |
| 几岁 (幾歲) | jǐ suì | how old are you? (familiar, or to a child) |
| 周岁 (週歲) | zhōu suì | one full year (e.g. on child's first birthday) |
| 岁数 (歲數) | suì shu | age (number of years old) |
| 贺岁 (賀歲) | hè suì | to extend New Year's greetings; to pay a New Year's visit |
| 月份 | yuè fèn | month |
| 每月 | měi yuè | each month |
| 月底 | yuè dǐ | end of the month |
See also: Japanese symbol for “years”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.