Classica Sinica Medica

歲會 简体 岁会

suì huì

Year meeting · sui hui

Also rendered: Year meeting (this site; literal, and it keeps 會 as a coming together of two orders rather than as an assembly) · Sui hui (transliteration; used when the three agreements are being listed as terms)

Cosmology

Reviewed · 2026-10-06

At a glance

Pinyin
suì huì
Simplified
岁会
Literal
歲 suì — the year; 會 huì — to meet, to come together (《說文》: 會，合也). 歲會 is the year in which the circuit meets the branch it belongs to: 木運臨卯，火運臨午，土運臨四季，金運臨酉，水運臨子，所謂歲會，氣之平也. Two occurrences. It is one of the three agreements the chapter sets out — the year meeting, the heaven tally, and the great unity that is both — and it is the one graded least: where the heaven tally is the holder of the law, the year's position is only the issuer of commands, and being struck by it gives an illness slow and lingering rather than swift and perilous.
Shuowen
**「歲」讀 suì，本篇21見**；**「會」讀 huì，本篇9見；「歲會」2見**；**《說文》：會，合也**；**本篇「會」字有「歲會」「會同」「與會」三用，皆讀 huì**

In brief

The year in which the circuit of the year and the branch of the year come to the same thing — the wood circuit meeting mao, fire meeting wu, earth meeting the end of the four seasons, metal meeting you, water meeting zi. The chapter calls such a year 氣之平, a year of level qi, and contrasts it with the year that does not meet: 歲不與會也. It is the weakest of the three agreements. Graded like offices — the heaven tally holds the law, the year’s position issues commands, the great unity is the honoured one — the year meeting is the middle one, and the illness it gives when evil strikes is slow and lingering rather than swift and perilous or sudden and fatal.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
The graphs 歲會
歲者年也，會者合也；歲運與歲支相合
所謂歲會，氣之平也 — Suwen 68
2
What meets what 木運臨卯
歲運之木，臨於卯位
木運臨卯，火運臨午 — Suwen 68
3
The five of them 土運臨四季
土無專位，寄旺於四季之末
土運臨四季，金運臨酉，水運臨子 — Suwen 68
4
What such a year is 氣之平也
歲會之年，其氣平而無太過不及
所謂歲會，氣之平也 — Suwen 68
5
What it is not 歲不與會也
非其位者，歲運不與歲支相會
帝曰：非位何如？歧伯曰：歲不與會也。 — Suwen 68
6
How it is graded 歲位爲行令
三者之中，歲會最下，比如行令之官
天符爲執法，歲位爲行令，太一天符爲貴人 — Suwen 68

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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Suwen 68 Suwen 68 · 六微㫖大論 Read in context →
歧伯曰：非其位則邪，當其位則正，邪則變甚，正則微。帝曰：何謂當位？歧伯曰：木運臨卯，火運臨午，土運臨四季，金運臨酉，水運臨子，所謂歲會，氣之平也。 歧伯曰：非其位则邪，当其位则正，邪则变甚，正则微。帝曰：何谓当位？歧伯曰：木运临卯，火运临午，土运临四季，金运临酉，水运临子，所谓岁会，气之平也。
Qí bó yuē: fēi qí wèi zé xié, dāng qí wèi zé zhèng, xié zé biàn shèn, zhèng zé wēi. Dì yuē: hé wèi dāng wèi? Qí bó yuē: mù yùn lín mǎo, huǒ yùn lín wǔ, tǔ yùn lín sì jì, jīn yùn lín yǒu, shuǐ yùn lín zǐ, suǒ wèi suì huì, qì zhī píng yě.
Qi Bo said: not in its place it is evil; in its right place it is correct. Evil makes the change severe; correct makes it slight. Huang Di said: what is called being in place? Qi Bo said: the wood circuit meeting mao, the fire circuit meeting wu, the earth circuit meeting the end of the four seasons, the metal circuit meeting you, the water circuit meeting zi — this is the year meeting, a year of level qi.
**「歲會」本篇2見，此其一**；**「臨」讀 lín，本篇6見，皆在五運臨支之文內**；**「季」讀 jì，本篇1見；土無專位，故寄於四季**；**「平」讀 píng，本篇1見；氣之平者，無太過不及**；**此段答「何謂當位」，與下段「歲不與會」正反相承**
Suwen 71 Suwen 71 · 六元正紀大論 Read in context →
帝曰：加者何謂？歧伯曰：太過而加同天符，不及而加同歲會也。帝曰：臨者何謂？歧伯曰：太過不及，皆曰天符，而變行有多少，病形有微甚，生死有早晏耳。帝曰：夫子言用寒遠寒，用熱遠熱，余未知其然也。願聞何謂遠？歧伯曰：熱無犯熱，寒無犯寒，從者和，逆者病，不可不敬畏而遠之，所謂時興六位也。帝曰：温涼何如？ 帝曰：加者何谓？歧伯曰：太过而加同天符，不及而加同岁会也。帝曰：临者何谓？歧伯曰：太过不及，皆曰天符，而变行有多少，病形有微甚，生死有早晏耳。帝曰：夫子言用寒远寒，用热远热，余未知其然也。愿闻何谓远？歧伯曰：热无犯热，寒无犯寒，从者和，逆者病，不可不敬畏而远之，所谓时兴六位也。帝曰：温凉何如？
Dì yuē: jiā zhě hé wèi? Qí bó yuē: tài guò ér jiā tóng tiān fú, bù jí ér jiā tóng suì huì yě. Dì yuē: lín zhě hé wèi? Qí bó yuē: tài guò bù jí, jiē yuē tiān fú, ér biàn xíng yǒu duō shǎo, bìng xíng yǒu wēi shèn, shēng sǐ yǒu zǎo yàn ěr. Dì yuē: fú zǐ yán yòng hán yuǎn hán, yòng rè yuǎn rè, yú wèi zhī qí rán yě. Yuàn wén hé wèi yuǎn? Qí bó yuē: rè wú fàn rè, hán wú fàn hán, cóng zhě hé, nì zhě bìng, bù kě bù jìng wèi ér yuǎn zhī, suǒ wèi shí xīng liù wèi yě. Dì yuē: wēn liáng hé rú?
Huang Di said: what is meant by adding? Qi Bo said: what is in surplus and adds is the same as a heaven tally, and what falls short and adds is the same as a year meeting. Huang Di said: what is meant by coming down? Qi Bo said: surplus and shortfall are both called heaven tallies; only the movement of change has more and less, the form of the illness slight and severe, and death and life early and late. Huang Di said: you have spoken of using cold and keeping far from cold, using heat and keeping far from heat; I do not yet understand how it is so. I wish to hear what is meant by keeping far. Qi Bo said: do not offend heat with heat, nor cold with cold; those who follow are harmonious and those who oppose fall ill; one cannot but stand in awe and keep far from them — this is what is called the six positions rising in season. Huang Di said: and warm and cool?
**「歲會」本篇6見，多在紀年之下，如「甲辰歲會」**；**此段「不及而加同歲會也」，與加同天符相對**

Compounds built on this term

天符
tiān fú
heaven tally
本篇5見；三會之一，歲運與司天之氣相合
太一天符
tài yī tiān fú
the great unity heaven tally
本篇2見；天符與歲會相合者
歲立
suì lì
the standing of the year
本篇1見；子甲相合，命曰歲立
當位
dāng wèi
being in place
本篇1見；當其位則正，非其位則邪

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This siteyear meetingliteral from 歲 and 會; the circuit and the branch come together, and the year is level because nothing is out of place
Transliterationsui huihow the phrase appears in writing on the 運氣 doctrine; right about the referent, and it drops what the two graphs say
Descriptivethe year of level qifaithful to what such a year is, and it names the consequence rather than the thing

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