Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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老 lǎo old
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#264
Chapter-16 HSK-A
6 strokes
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Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Lao was originally composed of 人 jen man, 毛 mao hair, and an obsolete character meaning to change; q.d. the hair turning white, seventy years of age. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
老
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or familiarity/old (of people)/venerable (person)/experienced/of long standing/always/all the time/of the past/very/outdated/(of meat etc) tough