歳

See also: 歲 and 岁

歳	U+6B73, 歳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B73

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

歳 (Kangxi radical 77, 止+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹火 (YMIHF), composition ⿱止⿵戌小 or ⿱止⿵戊𡭕)

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 577, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16326
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1443, character 20
Unihan data for U+6B73

For pronunciation and definitions of 歳 – see 歲 (“Jupiter; year; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 歲).

歳

Alternative spellings
歲 (kyūjitai) 才

From Middle Chinese 歲 (MC sjwejH). First attested in Japanese in the early 800s.^[1]

歳(さい) or 歳(サイ) • (-sai)

[from early 800s] -year-old
十四(じゅうよん)歳(さい)
jūyon sai
fourteen years old

Often abbreviated to much simpler 才, for example in 何才 (“how old?”), or １才 (“1 year old”), as opposed to 何歳 (“how old?”), １歳 (“1 year old”). The phrase "twenty years old" (二十歳) uses jukujikun reading and is pronounced はたち (hatachi) using the traditional Japanese counter tsu/chi. Similar native-Japanese readings for “thirty years old” and beyond also occur more rarely.

Japanese counter/suffix: 歳 (さい, sai, "years old")
Number	Kanji	Kana	Romaji
1	一歳	いっさい	issai
2	二歳	にさい	nisai
3	三歳	さんさい	sansai
4	四歳	よんさい	yonsai
5	五歳	ごさい	gosai
6	六歳	ろくさい	rokusai
7	七歳	ななさい	nanasai
8	八歳	はっさい	hassai
9	九歳	きゅうさい	kyūsai
10	十歳	じっさい、じゅっさい	jissai, jussai
20	二十歳	はたち	hatachi
?	何歳	なんさい	nansai

Alternative spelling
歲 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 歳 – see the following entry.

[noun] (obsolete) grain, particularly rice

[noun] (obsolete) a grain harvest, a grain crop

[noun] a year

[noun] age

[noun] (specifically) used to describe the age of someone who should not do things inappropriate for their age

(This term, 歳, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)