老子

老子 in English

lǎo zi: father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
lǎo zǐ: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi

Character breakdown

老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
子 zǐ son

Stroke order

Le caractère 老 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 老

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 子 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 子

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

老

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
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子

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 西晉
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

老子是谁？

Who was Lao Tze?
老子的本名是李耳。

Laozi's real name was Li Er.
道教是用老子的教导创立的，他是公元前六零四年在现代的河南省出生的圣贤。

Taoism was founded on the teachings of Laozi, a sage born in 604 B.C. in present-day Henan Province.

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