HSK 6 · Time

岁月 suìyuè “years” in Chinese

Traditional 歲月

What 岁月 means

  1. years
  2. time

How to say 岁月

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale岁suì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale月yuè4th tone, falling

岁月 in a sentence

  1. 十年是一段漫长的岁月。

    Shí nián shì yí duàn màncháng de suìyuè.

    Ten years is a long time.

    Sentence #1244803 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她怀念自己的青春岁月。

    Tā huáiniàn zìjǐ de qīngchūn suìyuè.

    She misses the days of her youth.

    Sentence #13573774 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 人生苦短，岁月如梭。

    Rénshēng kǔ duǎn, suìyuè rú suō.

    Life is short and time flies.

    Sentence #12686376 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 岁月 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 岁 (suì) with each of its parts in a different colour
岁suìyears old
  • 山mountain · shān
  • 夕evening · xī
The character 月 (yuè) with each of its parts in a different colour
月yuèmoon
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 二two · èr

Memory aidDrawn from a crescent moon.

How to write 岁月

岁 6 strokes · 月 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

岁月 (suìyuè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 岁月 (suìyuè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 岁月

Words with 岁

岁suì · year(s) of age压岁钱yāsuìqián · money given to children at Chinese New Year

Words with 月

月yuè · month月亮yuèliang · the moon正月zhēngyuè · first month of the lunar year日新月异rìxīnyuèyì · changing rapidly

More words: Time & Sequence

时光shíguāng · time时机shíjī · opportunity瞬间shùnjiān · instant随即suíjí · immediately往常wǎngcháng · usually (in the past)往事wǎngshì · the past为期wéiqī · to last for (a period)向来xiànglái · always

FAQs

岁月 (suìyuè) means “years” or “time”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it suìyuè: suì with a 4th tone, then yuè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 岁月 is written 歲月. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type suiyue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 岁月 from the suggestions. Typing suiyue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
岁月 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.