孝 xiào filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel syn 服 fú clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes syn 戴孝 dài xiào to wear mourning garb / to be in mourning syn 披麻带孝 披麻帶孝 pī má dài xiào to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻戴孝 披麻戴孝 pī má dài xiào to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻帶孝|披麻带孝 满孝 滿孝 mǎn xiào at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning 满服 滿服 mǎn fú at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning 旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge 老账 老賬 lǎo zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge 服饰 服飾 fú shì apparel / clothing and personal adornment syn 法宝 法寶 fǎ bǎo Buddha's teaching / Buddhist monk's apparel, staff etc / (Daoism) magic weapon / talisman / fig. specially effective device / magic wand syn 尺码 尺碼 chǐ mǎ size / fitting (of apparel) syn 穿戴 chuān dài to dress / to be dressed / clothing / apparel syn 老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn 卿 qīng high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) syn 丧 喪 sāng mourning / funeral / (old) corpse syn 甸 diàn suburbs or outskirts / one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China / official in charge of fields (old) 除灵 除靈 chú líng to expel spirits / (old) to end the period of mourning 凶服 xiōng fú mourning clothes (old) 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard 念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn 故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river) 甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn 童叟无欺 童叟無欺 tóng sǒu wú qī cheating neither old nor young (idiom) / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn 翻老账 翻老賬 fān lǎo zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds 翻旧账 翻舊賬 fān jiù zhàng to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds 老少无欺 老少無欺 lǎo shào wú qī cheating neither old nor young / treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike. syn 旧病复发 舊病復發 jiù bìng fù fā old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem syn 哀悼 āi dào to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning syn 灵堂 靈堂 líng táng mourning hall / funeral hall 哀思 āi sī grief-stricken thoughts / mourning 丧服 喪服 sāng fú mourning garment syn 孝服 xiào fú mourning clothes syn 居丧 居喪 jū sàng to observe the ritual mourning 缟素 縞素 gǎo sù white silk mourning dress syn 服丧 服喪 fú sāng in mourning 重孝 zhòng xiào mourning dress syn 守丧 守喪 shǒu sāng to keep watch beside a coffin / to observe a period of mourning 忧 憂 yōu to worry / to concern oneself with / worried / anxiety / sorrow / (literary) to observe mourning syn 缞 縗 cuī mourning garments of coarse hemp 禫 tǎn sacrifice at the end of mourning 寝苫枕块 寢苫枕塊 qǐn shān zhěn kuài bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period 縗 cuī mourning garments 髺 guà disheveled hair, as in mourning 哀江南赋 哀江南賦 āi jiāng nán fù Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝 哭丧棒 哭喪棒 kū sāng bàng mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety 哭腔 kū qiāng sobbing tone / sob / dirge / opera tune portraying mourning 寿堂 壽堂 shòu táng mourning hall / a hall for a birthday celebration 守制 shǒu zhì to go into mourning for one's parents 守孝 shǒu xiào to observe mourning for one's parents 守服 shǒu fú to observe mourning for one's parents 服滿 fú mǎn to have completed the mourning period (traditional) / to have served one's time 枕块 枕塊 zhěn kuài to use clay for a pillow (during mourning period) 脱孝 脫孝 tuō xiào to get through the mourning period 邙山行 máng shān xíng a form of Yuefu 樂府|乐府 mourning song or elegy / lit. to visit a tomb on Mt Mang 开堂 開堂 kāi táng to open a law court / to set up a mourning hall 丁艰 丁艱 dīng jiān (literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent 服满 服滿 fú mǎn to have completed the mourning period (traditional) / to have served one's time 丁忧 丁憂 dīng yōu (literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent 孝衣 xiào yī mourning garment 居丧 居喪 jū sāng to observe the ritual mourning 如丧考妣 如喪考妣 rú sàng kǎo bǐ lit. as if in mourning for one's parents (idiom) / fig. (often pejorative) inconsolable / distraught syn 博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician 小子 xiǎo zǐ (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) syn 老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn 古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn 打发 打發 dǎ fa to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) syn 老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn 老将 老將 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran syn 老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn 老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger syn 老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn 古风 古風 gǔ fēng old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] syn 喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn 食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route syn 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 者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this 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 老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn 解 xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn 旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth 宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn 士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker syn 京 jīng capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old) syn 老马识途 老馬識途 lǎo mǎ shí tú an old horse knows the way (idiom) / an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes syn 州 zhōu prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) 曹 cáo class or grade / generation / plaintiff and defendant (old) / government department (old) syn 牧 mù to herd / to breed livestock / to govern (old) / government official (old) syn 穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默 卢 盧 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy 岂 豈 kǎi old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3] syn 廉 lián incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) syn 蒸 zhēng to evaporate / (of cooking) to steam / torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old) / finely chopped firewood (old) syn 牟 móu barley / to moo / to seek or obtain / old variant of 侔[mou2] / old variant of 眸[mou2] syn 桢 楨 zhēn (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction / (fig.) mainstay / pillar / backbone 叟 sǒu old gentleman / old man syn 嬴 yíng old variant of 贏|赢[ying2], to win, to profit / old variant of 盈[ying2], full 邕 yōng city surrounded by a moat / old variant of 雍[yong1] / old variant of 壅[yong1] 