"old gentleman" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
grandpa / old gentleman syn
sǒu old gentleman / old man syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
先生 xiān sheng teacher / gentleman / sir / mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:位[wei4] syn
绅士 紳士 shēn shì gentleman syn
男士 nán shì man / gentleman syn
老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn
小道 xiǎo dào bypath / trail / bribery as a means of achieving a goal / minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman) syn
老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn
旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn
乡绅 鄉紳 xiāng shēn a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire syn
相公 xiàng gong lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband syn
赛马会 賽馬會 sài mǎ huì the Jockey Club, Hong Kong philanthropic organization (and former gentleman's club)
老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
正人君子 zhèng rén jūn zi upright gentleman / man of honor syn
老太爷 老太爺 lǎo tài yé elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father syn
故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river)
仁人志士 rén rén zhì shì gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom) / people with lofty ideals syn
君子之交淡如水 jūn zǐ zhī jiāo dàn rú shuǐ a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])
jūn monarch / lord / gentleman / ruler syn
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
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
志士仁人 zhì shì rén rén gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom) / people with lofty ideals syn
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
博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn
shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker 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
老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn
食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route 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
宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) 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
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
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
老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger 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
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
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
nuó (archaic) many / beautiful / how / old variant of 挪[nuo2] syn
diǎn point / dot / drop / speck / o'clock / point (in space or time) / to draw a dot / to check on a list / to choose / to order (food in a restaurant) / to touch briefly / to hint / to light / to ignite / to pour a liquid drop by drop / (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更[geng1] / dot stroke in Chinese characters / classifier for items syn
huà old variant of 話|话[hua4] syn
liǎng two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old) syn
nián grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2] syn
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
nòng old variant of 弄[nong4] syn
liú old variant of 留[liu2] syn
old variant of 汝[ru3] syn
(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4-liu4] "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but / however / (literary) only / just syn
lìng to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem syn
wǎng old variant of 往[wang3] syn
kào to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) / traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old) syn
old variant of 法[fa3] / law syn
老兄 lǎo xiōng elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy syn
diàn inn / old-style hotel (CL:家[jia1]) / (bound form) shop / store syn
pèng old variant of 碰[peng4] syn
姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
dào road / path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]) / (bound form) way / reason / principle / (bound form) a skill / an art / a specialization / (Daoism) the Way / the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express / to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) syn
tuǐ hip bone / old variant of 腿[tui3] syn
huǒ fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86 syn
péi to accompany / to keep sb company / to assist / old variant of 賠|赔[pei2] syn
duī to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old) syn
家人 jiā rén family member / (old) servant syn
suǒ old variant of 鎖|锁[suo3] syn
zhōu prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
yòu (bound form) right / right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence syn
shī teacher / master / expert / model / army division / (old) troops / to dispatch troops syn
jiù old / opposite: new 新 / former / worn (with age) syn
táng old variant of 糖[tang2] syn
chèng old variant of 秤[cheng4] syn
old variant of 塔[ta3] syn
guī to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor syn
dēng to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) syn
piān sheet / piece of writing / bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old) / classifier for written items: chapter, article syn
pàn to catch sight of in a doorway (old) syn
chā old variant of 插[cha1] syn
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old) syn
bǎo to defend / to protect / to keep / to guarantee / to ensure / (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3jia3] system syn
神像 shén xiàng likeness of a god or Buddha / (old) portrait of the deceased syn
wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67 syn
摆脱 擺脫 bǎi tuō to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself syn
dòng classifier for houses or buildings / ridgepole (old) syn
(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
yǐn to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters syn
老朋友 lǎo péng you old friend / (slang) period / menstruation syn
chéng old variant of 乘[cheng2] syn
dǒu dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4] / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of 陡[dou3] syn
ōu (used for transliteration) / old variant of 謳|讴[ou1]
méi classifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs, fingerprints etc (more formal than 個|个[ge4]) / classifier for bombs, missiles, satellites etc / (on product packaging) classifier for flat items (from Japanese 枚 "mai") / (old) stick used as a gag to prevent soldiers from talking while sneaking up on the enemy syn
chèn old variant of 趁[chen4] syn
冰箱 bīng xiāng refrigerator / (old) icebox
cháng old variant of 嘗|尝[chang2] syn
ancient / old / paleo- 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
old variant of 幕[mu4] / curtain / screen syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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