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old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix) |
husband; man
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老
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Pronunciation
Pronoun
老夫
- (old-fashioned or humorous) I; me (term of self-address used by an elderly man)
老夫聊發少年狂。
左牽黃，右擎蒼。 [MSC, trad.]
老夫聊发少年狂。
左牵黄，右擎苍。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 蘇軾 (Su Shi), 《江城子·密州出獵》 (To the tune of "River Town" - "Hunting in Mi Province") . Translation by Qian Jia
- Lǎofū liáo fā shàonián kuáng.
Zuǒ qiān huáng, yòu qíng cāng. - I take on a young man’s arrogance for a moment,
Pulling a yellow dog with my left hand,
And holding a goshawk with my right.
老夫原不愛吟詩，
因為囚中無所為。 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]- From: 1942, 胡志明 (Hú Zhìmíng) (Hồ Chí Minh), 《獄中日記·開卷》 (Prison Diary, “Beginning the Diary”); translated based on Foreign Languages Publishing House's 1972 version
- Lão phu nguyên bất ái ngâm thi,
Nhân vị tù trung vô sở vi. [Sino-Vietnamese] - I’ve never been fond of writing poetry;
But what else can I do in thraldom?
- old husband
- 老夫老妻 ― lǎofū lǎoqī ― old couple married for a long time; autumn romance
- 老夫少妻 ― lǎofū shàoqī ― May-December romance
Japanese
Noun
老夫 • (rōfu)
- an old man
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