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岁月

suì yuè

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 歲月

What 岁月 means

1. years
2. time

The characters in 岁月

• 岁suìclassifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
• 月yuèmoon; month; monthly

Example sentences

• 人生苦短，岁月如梭。
  Life is short and time is swift.
• 十年是一段漫长的岁月。
  Shí nián shì yī duàn màncháng de suìyuè.
  Ten years is a really long period of time.
• 她怀念自己的青春岁月。
  She pines for the days of her youth.
• 二十年是一段漫长的岁月。
  èrshí nián shì yī duàn màncháng de suìyuè.
  Twenty years is a long time.

Words starting with 岁月

• 岁月如流suì yuè rú liúthe passage of the years; the flow of time
• 岁月流逝suì yuè liú shìas time goes by (idiom)
• 岁月如梭suì yuè rú suōtime flies (idiom)
• 岁月峥嵘suì yuè zhēng róngeventful years; momentous times

Words containing 岁月

• 峥嵘岁月zhēng róng suì yuèeventful years (idiom)