How it used to be written
These are the forms of 齡, the traditional character: 龄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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两个孩子的年龄加起来和他们的父亲相当。
The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.
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中国女孩子年龄大了家里都会着急的。
When a Chinese girl gets old, her family becomes nervous.
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从她的年龄看来,我妈妈很年轻。
My mother looks young for her age.
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你的年龄是多少?
How old are you?
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你能猜到我的年龄吗?
Can you guess my age?
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你还没到可以拿驾驶执照的年龄。
You're not old enough to get a driver's license.
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她没到拿驾照的年龄。
She's not old enough to get a driver's license.
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宇宙的年龄大约为137.5亿年。
The age of the universe is about 13.75 billion years.