老生

老生 in English

lǎo shēng: venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)

Character breakdown

老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a pers…
生 shēng to be born

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 生 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 生

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
See all 22 forms

生

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

今天的激进也许是明天的老生常谈。

What's radical today may be cliché tomorrow.

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