| | 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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough | HSK 1 |
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| | old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents | HSK 1 |
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| | always | HSK 2 |
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| | elderly / old age / autumn of one's years | HSK 2 |
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| | old friend / (slang) period / menstruation | HSK 2 |
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| | boss / business proprietor / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL: 位 | HSK 3 |
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| | ordinary people / the "person in the street" / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | honest; sincere / well-behaved / naive; gullible | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) husband | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) wife | HSK 4 |
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| | native place / place of origin / home state or region | HSK 4 |
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| | ancient / old / age-old | HSK 5 |
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| | to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement | HSK 6 |
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| | fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown | HSK 6 |
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| | polite term for old woman or man | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈｜百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈｜帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak | HSK 7-9 |
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| | senior figure / elder / doyen | HSK 7-9 |
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| | very far away | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | nursing home | HSK 7-9 |
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| | pension | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank | HSK 7-9 |
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| | honestly speaking; to be frank, ... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | old man / I (an old man referring to himself) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) | |
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| | old horse sniffs the wind (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations | |
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| | God / Heavens | |
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| | female brothel keeper | |
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| | old soldier; veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain) | |
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| | late-Qing underground resistance movement against the Qing dynasty | |
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| | (coll.) eunuch / see also 老公 | |
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| | The Travels of Lao Tsan, novel by late Qing novelist Liu E 劉鶚｜刘鹗 | |
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| | lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥｜将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran | |
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| | glutton | |
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| | (slang) hairdresser | |
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| | old fellow / old man / father / husband | |
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| | cunning / crafty / wily old fox | |
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| | (coll.) old hand; veteran | |
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| | outmoded / old-fashioned | |
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| | the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears | |
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| | Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經｜道德经 by Laozi | |
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| | father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly) | |
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| | experienced person / an old hand at sth | |
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| | Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子 (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子｜庄子 (369-286 BC) | |
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| | aging (population) | |
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| | Robam (brand) | |
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| | boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer | |
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| | Laos | |
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| | oldie (song) | |
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| | father; dad | |
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| | Lao She (1899-1966), Chinese novelist and dramatist | |
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| | Lao Cai, Vietnam / Laokai or Laukkai, Burma (Myanmar) | |
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| | aged | |
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| | tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse) | |
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| | older generation | |
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| | Mindanao (island in the Philippines) | |
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| | to respect the elderly | |
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| | old-fashioned / old type / outdated | |
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| | decrepit and behind the times; old; useless / (humble) I; me (used by the elderly) | |
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| | elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk | |
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| | mother; mom | |
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| | lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations | |
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| | elders | |
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| | (dialect) father / old man / sir | |
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| | matchmaker / go-between / same as 月下老人 | |
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| | respect the old and cherish the young | |
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| | (coll.) foreigner (esp. non Asian person) / layman / amateur | |
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| | (of an elderly couple) husband or wife | |
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| | old friend / sb who passed the county level imperial exam (in Ming dynasty) | |
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| | (respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather | |
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| | (idiom) to live forever and never grow old | |
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| | (coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey | |
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| | old, well-known brand / old style; old school / an old hand; experienced veteran | |
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| | pharaoh (loanword) | |
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| | second-eldest child in a family / (euphemism) penis | |
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| | old woman (at times contemptuous) | |
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| | hackneyed / well-worn (phrase etc) / same old story / stereotypical fashion | |
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| | men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages | |
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| | old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged | |
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| | wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life | |
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| | the old and the young / the youngest member of the family | |
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| | callus (patch or hardened skin) / corns (on feet) / also 老趼 | |
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| | Broadway (New York City) | |
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| | old-fashioned; old-school | |
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| | seasoned; experienced | |
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