岁
suì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 歲
A year of age, used after a number to give someone's age. No verb is needed: 我十九岁 'I am nineteen'. 你几岁？ asks a child's age; an adult is more often asked 你多大？ instead.
Tuổi: đứng sau số để nói tuổi của ai đó. Không cần động từ: 我十九岁 (tôi mười chín tuổi). Hỏi tuổi trẻ nhỏ thì nói 你几岁？, còn với người lớn thường hỏi 你多大？ (bạn bao nhiêu tuổi?).
ClassifierRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 岁/歲 = tuế · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tuế” (tue). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “岁” mean?
A year of age, used after a number to give someone's age. No verb is needed: 我十九岁 'I am nineteen'. 你几岁？ asks a child's age; an adult is more often asked 你多大？ instead.
Is “岁” formal or informal?
岁 is generally neutral.