虚岁
Chinese nominal age (one year old at birth, increasing at each Chinese New Year)
Frequency 2.4
Meanings
- 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 at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.
- contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2sui4]