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"age" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
时代 時代 shí dài age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
年龄 年齡 nián líng (a person's) age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4] syn
年代 nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
年纪 年紀 nián jì age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4] syn
衰老 shuāi lǎo to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak 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
老化 lǎo huà (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
年华 年華 nián huá years / time / age syn
岁数 歲數 suì shu age (number of years old) syn
变老 變老 biàn lǎo to grow old / to age / aging
年岁 年歲 nián suì years of age / age syn
口齿 口齒 kǒu chǐ mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc) syn
年事 nián shì years of age / age syn
芳龄 芳齡 fāng líng age (of a young woman)
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
世 shì life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble syn
陈化 陳化 chén huà to age / to mature (wine, timber etc)
纪 紀 jì order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle syn
龄 齡 líng age / length of experience, membership etc syn
寿 壽 shòu long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary syn
庚 gēng age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta syn
年庚 nián gēng date and time of a person's birth / age
熟成 shú chéng (of wine, cheese, beef etc) to age / to mature
Chinese Pinyin Translation
现代 現代 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era 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
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
信息化 xìn xī huà informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
当代 當代 dāng dài the present age / the contemporary era syn
从小 從小 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age syn
中年 zhōng nián middle age syn
春秋 chūn qiū spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) 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
老年 lǎo nián elderly / old age / autumn of one's years syn
年限 nián xiàn age limit / fixed number of years 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
新时代 新時代 xīn shí dài new age
盛世 shèng shì a flourishing period / period of prosperity / a golden age 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
兄长 兄長 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age syn
今世 jīn shì this life / this age syn
现年 現年 xiàn nián (a person's) current age syn
今朝 jīn zhāo (dialect) today / (literary) the present / this age syn
石器时代 石器時代 shí qì shí dài Stone Age
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
年龄段 年齡段 nián líng duàn age group
终年 終年 zhōng nián entire year / throughout the year / age at death syn
信息时代 信息時代 xìn xī shí dài information age
白头 白頭 bái tóu hoary head / old age 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
中老年 zhōng lǎo nián middle and old age syn
当世 當世 dāng shì the present age / in office / the current office holder
黄金时代 黃金時代 huáng jīn shí dài golden age syn
世世 shì shì from age to age
适龄 適齡 shì líng of age / of the appropriate age syn
育龄 育齡 yù líng childbearing age
新丁 xīn dīng new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
享年 xiǎng nián to live to the (ripe) age of
老龄 老齡 lǎo líng old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged syn
不惑 bù huò without doubt / with full self-confidence / forty years of age syn
低龄 低齡 dī líng (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age syn
退休年龄 退休年齡 age at retirement
反哺 fǎn bǔ to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
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
早衰 zǎo shuāi to age prematurely / premature senescence syn
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
而立之年 ér lì zhī nián the age of 30
学龄 學齡 xué líng school age
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
老气横秋 老氣橫秋 lǎo qì héng qiū old and decrepit / proud of one's age and experience (idiom) syn
惊风 驚風 jīng fēng infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)
结发 結髮 jié fà (in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age
暮年 mù nián one's declining years / one's old age syn
老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn
秋霜 qiū shuāng autumn frost / fig. white hair as sign of old age
婚龄 婚齡 hūn líng length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age
成人礼 成人禮 chéng rén lǐ coming of age ceremony
高寿 高壽 gāo shòu longevity / venerable age / your venerable age? syn
未老先衰 wèi lǎo xiān shuāi to age prematurely syn
晚育 wǎn yù late childbirth / to have a child at a later age
垂老 chuí lǎo approaching old age
忘年交 wàng nián jiāo friends despite the difference in age syn
陈迹 陳跡 chén jì past events / relics from a former age / ruins 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]
党龄 黨齡 dǎng líng party standing / age of service to the Party
宝刀未老 寶刀未老 bǎo dāo wèi lǎo treasure knife does not age (idiom) / old but still vigorous
半老徐娘 bàn lǎo xú niáng middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
危境 wēi jìng dangerous situation / venerable old age syn
叶落归根 葉落歸根 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. syn
贵庚 貴庚 guì gēng your age (honorific)
冰期 bīng qī glacial epoch / ice age
积年 積年 jī nián for a long time / over many years / old / advanced in age syn
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
女大不中留 nǚ dà bù zhōng liú when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
鼎盛期 dǐng shèng qī golden age / heyday / period of peak prosperity
垂暮之年 chuí mù zhī nián old age syn
思春期 sī chūn qī age when girls start to develop feelings for the opposite sex / puberty
徐娘半老 xú niáng bàn lǎo middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
老蚌生珠 lǎo bàng shēng zhū lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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