Character Details
| old | Ascii: — | w424 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 老 | lǎo | laowe | 3 | 耂 (old) + 匕 (spoon) → old | 老 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Old people who have lived on the Earth for a long time have to use a stick to walk around and eat meals with a spoon. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK —] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - You are not old at all | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 126 - — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 耂 (old) + 匕 (spoon) → old | 老 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||