classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) meets a bat (夕) in the bathroom of the Eiffel Tower (ei4). They make a bet: The one who is older (岁) will be allowed to eat the other using a fork (山).

岁 character breakdown

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.

Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
surname Shan
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.

Characters with 岁 as component

dirt / filth
noise of bird's wings
cut / injure
used in 噦噦|哕哕[hui4 hui4]
to puke / to hiccup / Taiwan pr. [yue1]

Words with 岁

years of age / age
Tai Sui, God of the year / archaic name for the planet Jupiter 木星[Mu4 xing1] / nickname for sb who is the most powerful in an area
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
money given to children as new year present
the following year / next year
to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
to propitiate the god of the current year, Tai Sui 太歲|太岁[Tai4 sui4]
one's age (calculated as years from birth) / contrasted with 虛歲|虚岁[xu1 sui4]
how old are you? (familiar, or to a child)
in former years / in olden days
lean year / year of bad harvest
to last for an eternity (idiom)
early years / adolescence
full year / first birthday
(literary) this year
(literary) to get through the year / entire year / throughout the year
see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长[You3 yi4 di4 jiu3 tian1 chang2]

Sentences with 岁

qǐ
zòu
wàn
suì
 
 
ji̅n
yǒu
ya̅o
hóu
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng