老人

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Chinese

 
old; aged; venerable
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
 man; person; people
trad. (老人) 老 人
simp. #(老人) 老 人
alternative forms 老儂／老侬 coastal Min (colloquial)

Pronunciation

Note:
  • lāu-lâng - colloquial;
  • ló-jîn - literary.
Rime
Character 老 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 盧晧切 如鄰切
Baxter lawX nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɑuX/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lɑuX/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lɑuX/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lawX/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong 		/lɑuX/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li 		/lɑuX/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/lɑuX/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǎo rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lou5 jan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 老 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǎo rén
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lawX › ‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.rˁuʔ/ /*ni/
English old (other) person

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 老 人
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 7666 10800
Phonetic
component 		老 人
Rime
group 		幽 眞
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		老 仁
Old
Chinese 		/*ruːʔ/ /*njin/

Noun

老人

  1. old person; the old; the elderly
    他的父親看起來是一位精神矍鑠的老人。 [MSC, trad.]
    他的父亲看起来是一位精神矍铄的老人。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā de fùqīn kànqilai shì yī wèi jīngshén juéshuò de lǎorén.
    His father looks like a sprightly old man.
    從老人一直到小孩無不歡欣鼓舞。 [MSC, trad.]
    从老人一直到小孩无不欢欣鼓舞。 [MSC, simp.]
    Cóng lǎorén yīzhí dào xiǎohái wúbù huānxīngǔwǔ.
    Everyone from the elderly to the children rejoiced.
  2. elder

Synonyms

  • (old person):
  • (elder):

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “elder”):

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (老人):

See also

Japanese

Kanji in this term
老 人
ろう
Grade: 4 		じん
Grade: 1
kan’on

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

老(ろう)人(じん) • (rōjin) ←らうじん (rauzin)?

  1. old person; elderly

Synonyms

Derived terms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
老人

Noun

老人 • (noin) (hangeul 노인)

  1. Hanja form? of 노인 (“old person, elderly”).
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