他们差六岁。

The difference in their ages is six years.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他们 tāmen they; them
=2 差 chā
  1. difference; discrepancy
  2. (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction)
  3. (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
=2 差 chà
  1. different
  2. wrong; mistaken
  3. to fall short; to lack
  4. not up to standard; inferior
  5. Taiwan pr. chā
=2 差 chāi
  1. to send (on an errand)
  2. (archaic) person sent on such an errand
  3. job; official post
=2 差 cī used in 參差 cēncī
=2 差 cuō
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 搓 (cuō, “to rub with one's hands; to scrub; to twist”).
  2. Original form of 搓 (cuō, “to rub with one's hands; to scrub; to twist”).
=2 差 chài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 瘥 (chài, “to recover from an illness”).
  2. Original form of 瘥 (chài, “to recover from an illness”).
=3 六 liù
  1. six
  2. 6
=3 六 lù used in place names
=4 岁 suì
  1. variant of 歲 suì, year
  2. years old
=4 岁 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)