春秋 | chūn qiū | spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) | |
虚岁 | xū suì | one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) &ndash / 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. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4] |