金 jīn gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn 黄金 黃金 huáng jīn gold / golden (opportunity) / prime (time) syn 金色 jīn sè golden / gold (color) syn 衰老 shuāi lǎo to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak syn 良机 良機 liáng jī a good chance / a golden opportunity 年岁 年歲 nián suì years of age / age syn 中庸 zhōng yōng golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary syn 金黄 金黃 jīn huáng golden yellow / golden syn 黄金分割 黃金分割 huáng jīn fēn gē golden ratio / golden section 金箍棒 jīn gū bàng golden cudgel, weapon wielded by Sun Wukong in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4] 寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn 金鸡 金雞 jīn jī golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) 世世 shì shì from age to age 金灿灿 金燦燦 jīn càn càn golden-bright and dazzling syn 适龄 適齡 shì líng of age / of the appropriate age syn 婚龄 婚齡 hūn líng length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age 高寿 高壽 gāo shòu longevity / venerable age / your venerable age? syn 年事 nián shì years of age / age syn 黄金周 黃金周 huáng jīn zhōu Golden Week, two 7-day national holiday periods 金球奖 金球獎 jīn qiú jiǎng Golden Globe Award 金马奖 金馬獎 jīn mǎ jiǎng Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards 潘金莲 潘金蓮 pān jīn lián Pan Jinlian (name lit. Golden Lotus), heroine of Ming dynasty vernacular novel Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus 金瓶梅 金瓶梅 jīn píng méi Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content 金曲奖 金曲獎 jīn qǔ jiǎng Golden Melody Awards 金三角 jīn sān jiǎo Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn 方文山 fāng wén shān Vincent Fang (1969-), Taiwanese multi-Golden Melody Award lyricist 黄花菜 黃花菜 huáng huā cài citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni) / golden needles (its edible flower) syn 一箭双雕 一箭雙鵰 yī jiàn shuāng diāo lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone syn 金丝猴 金絲猴 jīn sī hóu golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) 金蝉 金蟬 jīn chán Golden Cicada 金屋藏娇 金屋藏嬌 jīn wū cáng jiāo a golden house to keep one's mistress (idiom) / a magnificent house built for a beloved woman 金印 jīn yìn golden seal / characters tattooed on a convict's face 锦鸡 錦雞 jǐn jī golden pheasant 金狮奖 金獅獎 jīn shī jiǎng Golden Lion, award at the Venice Film Festival 杀鸡取卵 殺雞取卵 shā jī qǔ luǎn lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs syn 虚岁 虛歲 xū suì 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] 寿 壽 shòu long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary syn 金科玉律 jīn kē yù lǜ golden rule / key principle syn 点金术 點金術 diǎn jīn shù Midas touch / golden touch 破瓜 pò guā (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64 金毛犬 jīn máo quǎn golden retriever (dog breed) 行 háng row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column syn 年代 nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 时代 時代 shí dài age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 代 dài to be a substitute for / to act on behalf of / to replace / to substitute / generation / dynasty / age / period / (historical) era / (geological) eon syn 年纪 年紀 nián jì age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4] syn 年龄 年齡 nián líng (a person's) age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4] syn 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 大哥 dà gē eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader / boss syn 世 shì life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble syn 老大 lǎo dà old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang syn 古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn 现代 現代 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era syn 从小 從小 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age syn 大叔 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) syn 中年 zhōng nián middle age syn 岁数 歲數 suì shu age (number of years old) syn 老年 lǎo nián elderly / old age / autumn of one's years syn 当代 當代 dāng dài the present age / the contemporary era syn 兄长 兄長 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age syn 老化 lǎo huà (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 口齿 口齒 kǒu chǐ mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc) syn 世代 shì dài for many generations / generation / era / age syn 一世 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) syn 同龄人 同齡人 tóng líng rén peer / one's contemporary / person of the same age syn 同龄 同齡 tóng líng of the same age syn 年华 年華 nián huá years / time / age syn 年龄段 年齡段 nián líng duàn age group 现年 現年 xiàn nián (a person's) current age syn 享年 xiǎng nián to live to the (ripe) age of 末世 mò shì last phase (of an age) syn 早衰 zǎo shuāi to age prematurely / premature senescence syn 今朝 jīn zhāo (dialect) today / (literary) the present / this age syn 春秋 chūn qiū spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) syn 阿哥 ā gē (familiar) elder brother syn 年限 nián xiàn age limit / fixed number of years syn 学龄 學齡 xué líng school age 老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn 终年 終年 zhōng nián entire year / throughout the year / age at death syn 今世 jīn shì this life / this age syn 低龄 低齡 dī líng (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age syn 芳龄 芳齡 fāng líng age (of a young woman) 而立之年 ér lì zhī nián the age of 30 老气横秋 老氣橫秋 lǎo qì héng qiū old and decrepit / proud of one's age and experience (idiom) syn 大姨 dà yí aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) syn 变老 變老 biàn lǎo to grow old / to age / aging 中老年 zhōng lǎo nián middle and old age syn 老龄 老齡 lǎo líng old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged syn 小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn 育龄 育齡 yù líng childbearing age 反哺 fǎn bǔ to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor 未老先衰 wèi lǎo xiān shuāi to age prematurely syn 忘年交 wàng nián jiāo friends despite the difference in age syn 