虛歲
xūsuì
ㄒㄩ ㄙㄨㄟˋ
Simplified 虚岁
- 1one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
- 2contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
Example
他虛歲三十七歲。
tā xūsuì sān shíqī suì
According to East Asian reckoning, he's thirty-seven.