老
Details
- Definition: 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old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough
- HSK Level: 1
- Frequency Rank: 266
- Alternate Forms: 老
- Notes: POS: a, d, g
Variants
老
- Pinyin: lǎo
- English Definitions: 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old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough
- Notes: Classifiers:
Other transcriptions: numeric: lao3, wadegiles: lao³, bopomofo: ㄌㄠˇ, romatzyh: lao