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Change log entry 73160
Processed by: richwarm (2021-06-29 07:19:33 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 67135 - submitted by 'haton' >>
Hello editors,
I tried to make sense of this age calculation thing. I have the feeling that
1) 虚岁 advances at the lunar new year rather than the solar one;
2) 实岁 et 足岁 are the same
(but I am not 100% sure)
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Editor: 虚岁的计龄方式为:出生时记为一岁,以后每到一个春节(古义即现在的立春)便增加一岁。

"In the lunisolar calendar, New Year's Day might be before or after Lichun."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichun#China
Diff:
# - 實歲 实岁 [shi2 sui4] /method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/see also 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/see also 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/
# + 實歲 实岁 [shi2 sui4] /method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/same as 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/as opposed to 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/
 
# - 虛歲 虚岁 [xu1 sui4] /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[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday./as opposed to 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/
# + 虛歲 虚岁 [xu1 sui4] /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 lunar new year, rather than on one's birthday./as opposed to 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/
 
# - 足歲 足岁 [zu2 sui4] /method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/see also 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/
# + 足歲 足岁 [zu2 sui4] /method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/same as 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/as opposed to 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/
 
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- 實歲 实岁 [shi2 sui4] /method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/see also 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/see also 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/
+ 實歲 实岁 [shi2 sui4] /one's age (calculated as years from birth)/contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/
 
- 虛歲 虚岁 [xu1 sui4] /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[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday./as opposed to 足歲|足岁[zu2 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/
+ 虛歲 虚岁 [xu1 sui4] /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[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday./contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/
 
- 足歲 足岁 [zu2 sui4] /method of calculating a person's age in years from birth/see also 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/see also 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]/
+ 足歲 足岁 [zu2 sui4] /one's age (calculated as years from birth)/contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]/
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