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[虛歲]
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xūsuì
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one'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 is one year at birth, and increases by one year at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Lì chūn] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
as opposed to 足歲
>足岁[zú suì]
see also 實歲
>实岁[shí suì]
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