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Mandarin pinyin pronunciation
suì
Cantonese jyutpin pronunciation
seui3
Short definition (a measure word)
Usage frequency Very common
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All available English definitions (a measure word)Cdict icon / year (of crop harvests)MDBG icon/
Copyleft icon Adso icon Adso: year
Copyleft icon Cantofish icon Cantofish: year; years old; classifier for years old
Copyleft icon MDBG icon MDBG: classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
Copyleft icon LDC icon LDC: year; years old; (a measure word); Year
Copyleft icon Cdict icon CDict: year; years old; (a measure word)'
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Sentence examples
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没有人(méi yǒu rén) nobody
能够(néng gòu) can
活到(huódào)
两百(liǎng bǎi) two hundred
(suì) (a measure word)

No man can live to be two hundred years old.

明天(míng tiān) tomorrow
(shì) is
我的( de) my
生日(shēng rì) birthday
(ér) with
我将( jiāng) i'ii
(huìkuài) will
1 7
(suì) (a measure word)

Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be seventeen.

年龄(nián líng) (a person's) age
’ ‘ 1 6
(suì) (a measure word)

"Age?" "16."

(tā) another
(chéng) OK
立了(lìle)
自己的(zì jǐ de) one's own
公司的( gōng sī de) corporation's
(shí) when
(hòu) season
还不到( huán bù dào) still not to reach
二十(èr shí) 20
(suì) (a measure word)

He was still in his teens when he founded a company.

(tā) she
(chā cī) poor
不多( bù duō)
(yǒu) some
2 0
(suì) (a measure word)

She is almost 20 years old.

(wǒ) I
(míng) wise
(nián) year
1 7
(suì) (a measure word)

I'll be seventeen next year.

(tā) another
(xiǎng) to enjoy
(nián) year
5 4
(suì) (a measure word)

He died when he was 54 years old.

隔壁家
(dedì) of
姐姐(jiějiě) older sister
(dedì) of
孩子(hái zi) child
(dū) all
7
(suì) (a measure word)
(dà dài dài) big
(liǎo) (of eyes) bright

The child of the lady next door is already seven years old.

(tā) she
2 5
(suì) (a measure word)
(jiù) only
结婚了(jié hūn le) to have married

Because she is twenty-five years old, she gets married.

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