Individuals can be one or two years older in Asian reckoning than in the western age system .
`` Since age is incremented at the beginning of the lunar or solar year , rather than on the anniversary of a birthday , people may be one or two years older in Asian reckoning than in the western age system.  In either the traditional or modern age system the word sui ( ) , meaning `` '' years of age '' '' , is used for age counting . ''
East Asian age reckoning