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Chinese
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old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix) |
‑ist, ‑er (person); person (who does something)
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| trad. (老者)
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老
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者
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| simp. #(老者)
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老
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者
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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老
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者
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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lǎo
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zhě
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ lawX ›
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‹ tsyæX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*C.rˁuʔ/
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/*tAʔ/
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| English
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old
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(nominalizing particle)
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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老
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者
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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7666
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16960
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Phonetic
component
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老
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者
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Rime
group
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幽
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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老
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者
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Old
Chinese
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/*ruːʔ/
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/*tjaːʔ/
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| Notes
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說文古旅聲。甲金文象足印小坎積水，
爲瀦初文，用詹鄞鑫說
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Noun
老者
- (literary or Hengyang Xiang) old person; old people
Synonyms
- 家先生 (Hakka, polite, term of address)
- 老人 (lǎorén)
- 老人家 (polite, term of address)
- 老大人 (Hokkien, polite, term of address)
- 老年人 (lǎoniánrén)
- 黃髮 / 黄发 (huángfà) (literary)
Descendants
Japanese
| Alternative spelling
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| 老者 (kyūjitai)
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Pronunciation
Noun
老者 • (rōsha) ←らうしゃ (rausya)?
- old person; elderly
Synonyms
References