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  *老* | 老* | *老
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
HSK 1
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement
HSK 6
to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
HSK 7-9
to grow old together
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
senior figure / elder / doyen
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
aged
to admit to one's advancing years / to acquiesce to old age
(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood
to respect the elderly
to look old
matchmaker / go-between / same as 月下老人
(idiom) until the end of time
"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, namely 鄧小平|邓小平, 陳雲|陈云, 李先念, 彭真, 楊尚昆|杨尚昆, 薄一波, 王震, and 宋任窮|宋任穷 / abbr. to 八老
(idiom) (of a married couple) to live together until old age; to remain lifelong companions
to grow old / to age / aging
mother and father / parents
respect the aged
lit. a good sword always remains sharp (idiom) / fig. (of one's skills etc) to be as good as ever / the old man still has it
treasure knife does not age (idiom); old but still vigorous
(idiom) to live forever and never grow old
(Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell
old and decrepit / senile
elders
to spend one's last years
(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, abbr. for 八大元老
solitary old man or woman / regular patron (at brothels)
(old) a senior in one's household
pharaoh (loanword)
(literary) person aged over fifty / elderly person
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
old / aged / (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous / forceful
elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk
old fogy; adherent of previous dynasty
maternal grandmother / same as 姥姥
approaching old age
to honor old people as we do our own aged parents
Zhuangzi and Laozi, the Daoist masters
variant of 闊佬|阔佬
variant of 赤佬


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