岁 (suì) means Years old. Below are 24 of the 25 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我女儿今年三 岁 。
Wǒ nǚ'ér jīnnián sān suì.
My daughter is three years old this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 女儿
我弟弟今年八 岁 。
Wǒ dìdi jīnnián bā suì.
My younger brother is eight this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 弟弟
哥哥比我大三 岁 。
Gēge bǐ wǒ dà sān suì.
My older brother is three years older than me.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 哥哥
妹妹比我小两 岁 。
Mèimei bǐ wǒ xiǎo liǎng suì.
My younger sister is two years younger than me.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 妹妹
奶奶今年八十 岁 了。
Nǎinai jīnnián bāshí suì le.
Grandma is eighty this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 奶奶
他很年轻，才二十 岁 。
Tā hěn niánqīng, cái èrshí suì.
He is young — only twenty.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 年轻
他看着年轻，其实已经四十 岁 了。
Tā kàn zhe niánqīng, qíshí yǐjing sìshí suì le.
He looks young, but he's actually already forty.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 其实
From the graded readers
她今年十六 岁 ，比我大一 岁 。
tā jīnnián shíliù suì, bǐ wǒ dà yī suì.
She's sixteen this year, one year older than me.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili
哥哥今年二十 岁 ，他在北京学习。
gēge jīnnián èrshí suì, tā zài běijīng xuéxí.
My brother is twenty this year and he studies in Beijing.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family
她今年八十三 岁 了，眼睛不太好。
tā jīnnián bāshí sān suì le / liǎo / liào, yǎnjīng bù tài hǎo / hào.
She's eighty-three this year and her eyes aren't good.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
我八 岁 那年，爸爸买了一辆小自行车给我。
wǒ bā suì nà / nèi nián, bàba mǎile yī liàng xiǎo zìxíngchē gěi wǒ.
The year I was eight, my dad bought me a small bicycle.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
他们笑得很开心，看起来大概二十 岁 左右。
tāmen xiào dehěn kāixīn, kànqǐlái dàgài èrshí suì zuǒyòu.
They were laughing happily and looked about twenty.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
如果我不开始，五年以后我还是三十五 岁 。
rúguǒ wǒ bù kāishǐ, wǔ nián yǐhòu wǒ háishì sānshí wǔ suì.
If I didn't start, in five years I'd be thirty-five anyway.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
班里最小的学生十九 岁 ，最大的六十八 岁 。
bān lǐ zuìxiǎo de / dì xuésheng shíjiǔsuì, zuìdà de / dì liùshí bā suì.
The youngest student in the class was nineteen and the oldest sixty-eight.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
为了一个字，一位八十三 岁 的老人写了两遍。
wèile yīgè zì, yī wèi bāshí sān suì de / dì lǎorén xiěle liǎng biàn.
For the sake of one character, an eighty-three-year-old had written it out twice.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
他们说：“三十 岁 了，现在开始会不会太晚？”
tāmen shuō:" sānshí suì le / liǎo / liào, xiànzài kāishǐ huìbùhuì tài wǎn?"
They said, "You're thirty — isn't it a bit late to start now?"
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
那条消息是她十四 岁 的弟弟发的，本来是开玩笑。
nà / nèi tiáo xiāoxi shì tā shísì suì de / dì dìdi fā de / dì, běnlái shì kāiwánxiào.
The message had been sent by her fourteen-year-old brother, as a joke.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
三十 岁 生日那天，我做了一个决定：我要重新开始学画画。
sānshí suì shēngrì nà / nèi tiān, wǒ zuòle yīgè juédìng: wǒ yāo chóngxīn kāishǐ xué huà huà.
On my thirtieth birthday I made a decision: I was going to start learning to paint again.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
From the grammar library
我十八 岁 了。
Wǒ shíbā suì le.
I've turned eighteen.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 了 — completed action and change of state
岁 appears in 25 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 岁
How is 岁 used in a sentence?
This page shows 25 sentences using 岁 (suì, "Years old"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 岁 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 岁 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 岁 an HSK word?
Yes — 岁 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 岁?
The dictionary page for 岁 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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