อายุ เกษียณ
“อายุ เกษียณ” (айу касийан) — retirement age in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "age of release to rest": the release is the one from the pensioners word. The age does not "arrive" here — one is "let go" from work into it. In a live sentence: “อายุ เกษียณ ของ ผู้ ชาย หก สิบ ปี” — The retirement age for men is sixty. Written with the characters อ, า, ย, ุ, เ, ก, ษ, ี, ย, ณ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | อายุ เกษียณ |
| Read in Latin letters | айу касийан |
| Translation | retirement age |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "age of release to rest": the release is the one from the pensioners word. The age does not "arrive" here — one is "let go" from work into it
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- อายุ เกษียณ ของ ผู้ ชาย หก สิบ ปีайу касийан кхонг пхуу чаай хок сип пийThe retirement age for men is sixty
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “retirement age” in Thai?
«อายุ เกษียณ», read “айу касийан”. In a live sentence: “อายุ เกษียณ ของ ผู้ ชาย หก สิบ ปี” — The retirement age for men is sixty. Noun, level B1; written with the characters อ, า, ย, ุ, เ, ก, ษ, ี, ย, ณ.
How is “อายุ เกษียณ” written in Latin letters?
айу касийан. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "age of release to rest": the release is the one from the pensioners word. The age does not "arrive" here — one is "let go" from work into it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.