老 lǎo 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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 手 shǒu hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] syn 普通人 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person / private citizen / people / the person in the street syn 每人 měi rén each person / everybody / per person syn 小人 xiǎo rén person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character syn 恶人 惡人 è rén evil person / vile creature / villain / (archaic) ugly person syn 人头 人頭 rén tóu person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account) syn 衰老 shuāi lǎo to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak syn 硕士 碩士 shuò shì master's degree / person who has a master's degree / learned person 高个子 高個子 gāo gè zi tall person / (of a person) tall syn 废人 廢人 fèi rén handicapped person / useless person syn 老化 lǎo huà (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated 闲人 閒人 xián rén idle person / idler / person who has no legitimate reason to be in a certain place syn 辗转 輾轉 zhǎn zhuǎn to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander syn 人称 人稱 rén chēng person (first person, second person etc in grammar) / called / known as 可人 kě rén pleasant / agreeable / a person after one's heart (charming person) / a gifted person syn 同龄人 同齡人 tóng líng rén peer / one's contemporary / person of the same age syn 奇人 qí rén an eccentric / odd person / person of extraordinary talent syn 急性子 jí xìng zi impetuous person / excitable person syn 光棍 guāng gùn gangster / hoodlum / bachelor / single man / (dialect) wise person / astute person syn 年岁 年歲 nián suì years of age / age syn 现年 現年 xiàn nián (a person's) current age syn 蛔虫 蛔蟲 huí chóng roundworm / ascarid / (esp.) Ascaris lumbricoides, a human parasite / (fig.) person who knows what another person is thinking / a mind reader 德高望重 dé gāo wàng zhòng a person of virtue and prestige / a person of good moral standing and reputation syn 春秋 chūn qiū spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles) syn 多面手 duō miàn shǒu multitalented person / versatile person / all-rounder syn 寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn 世世 shì shì from age to age 有心人 yǒu xīn rén resolute person / person with aspirations / people who feel / people who use their heads syn 适龄 適齡 shì líng of age / of the appropriate age syn 婚龄 婚齡 hūn líng length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age 高寿 高壽 gāo shòu longevity / venerable age / your venerable age? syn 名士 míng shì (old) a person of literary talent / a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post) syn 年事 nián shì years of age / age syn 明眼人 míng yǎn rén perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind) syn 那个人 那個人 nà gè rén lit. that person / fig. the person you have been looking for / Mr Right / the girl of one's dreams 上线 上線 shàng xiàn to go online / to put sth online / to reach a specific standard / to put into production / handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc) 达人 達人 dá rén (coll.) expert / connoisseur / guru / enthusiast / geek (influenced by Japanese 達人 "tatsujin" c. 2000) / (literary) sensible person / person who understands life / (literary) optimist 传奇人物 傳奇人物 chuán qí rén wù legendary person / legend (i.e. person) 白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn 单身贵族 單身貴族 dān shēn guì zú fig. unmarried person / single person (especially one who is comfortable financially) 虚岁 虛歲 xū suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4] 伊 yī (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that syn 寿 壽 shòu long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary syn 贤 賢 xián worthy or virtuous person / honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation syn 外心 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon) syn 传抄 傳抄 chuán chāo to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying syn 破瓜 pò guā (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64 辩士 辯士 biàn shì eloquent person / person with rhetoric skills syn 行 háng row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column syn 年代 nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 时代 時代 shí dài age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 代 dài to be a substitute for / to act on behalf of / to replace / to substitute / generation / dynasty / age / period / (historical) era / (geological) eon syn 年纪 年紀 nián jì age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4] syn 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 大哥 dà gē eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader / boss syn 世 shì life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble syn 老大 lǎo dà old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang syn 古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn 现代 現代 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era syn 从小 從小 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age syn 大叔 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) syn 中年 zhōng nián middle age syn 岁数 歲數 suì shu age (number of years old) syn 老年 lǎo nián elderly / old age / autumn of one's years syn 当代 當代 dāng dài the present age / the contemporary era syn 兄长 兄長 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age syn 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 口齿 口齒 kǒu chǐ mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc) syn 世代 shì dài for many generations / generation / era / age syn 一世 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings) syn 同龄 同齡 tóng líng of the same age syn 年华 年華 nián huá years / time / age syn 年龄段 年齡段 nián líng duàn age group 享年 xiǎng nián to live to the (ripe) age of 末世 mò shì last phase (of an age) syn 黄金时代 黃金時代 huáng jīn shí dài golden age syn 盛世 shèng shì a flourishing period / period of prosperity / a golden age syn 早衰 zǎo shuāi to age prematurely / premature senescence syn 今朝 jīn zhāo (dialect) today / (literary) the present / this age syn 阿哥 ā gē (familiar) elder brother syn 年限 nián xiàn age limit / fixed number of years syn 学龄 學齡 xué líng school age 老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn 终年 終年 zhōng nián entire year / throughout the year / age at death syn 今世 jīn shì this life / this age syn 低龄 低齡 dī líng (of a member of a specific cohort) lower than average in age syn 芳龄 芳齡 fāng líng age (of a young woman) 而立之年 ér lì zhī nián the age of 30 老气横秋 老氣橫秋 lǎo qì héng qiū old and decrepit / proud of one's age and experience (idiom) syn 大姨 dà yí aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) syn 变老 變老 biàn lǎo to grow old / to age / aging 中老年 zhōng lǎo nián middle and old age syn 老龄 老齡 lǎo líng old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged syn 小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn 育龄 育齡 yù líng childbearing age 反哺 fǎn bǔ to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor 未老先衰 wèi lǎo xiān shuāi to age prematurely syn 忘年交 wàng nián jiāo friends despite the difference in age syn 