岁
year of age; years old
HSK level
- Pinyin
- suì
- Part of speech
- measure word
- Level
- HSK 1
- Strokes
- 6
- Register
- neutral
- In episodes
- 1
Stroke order for 岁
岁 is written with 6 strokes. The animation replays automatically.
What does 岁 mean?
岁 (suì) is the measure word for a person's age in years.
The pattern is simply NUMBER + 岁 — no extra verb required. 我二十岁 literally means 'I twenty years-of-age,' which is the complete and natural sentence for 'I am twenty years old.' Note that Chinese does NOT use 是 (to be) here — 我是二十岁 is grammatically wrong; the number-plus-岁 chunk acts as its own predicate.
To ASK age, the question word depends on the listener: 你几岁？ for small children (expecting a single digit), 你多大？ for everyone else, 您多大年纪？ for elders (polite). 岁 only counts years of human / pet life; for object years use 年.
Hear 岁 in real episodes
岁 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
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我二十岁。
Wǒ èrshí suì.
I'm twenty years old.
spoken
他的女儿五岁。
Tā de nǚ'ér wǔ suì.
His daughter is five years old.
neutral
你几岁了？
Nǐ jǐ suì le?
How old are you? (asking a small child)
spoken
我妈妈五十岁。
Wǒ māma wǔshí suì.
My mom is fifty years old.
spoken
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