耆老

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Chinese

man of sixty or seventy
old; aged; venerable
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
 
trad. (耆老)
simp. #(耆老)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (30) (37)
Final () (15) (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter gjij lawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiɪ/ /lɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡi/ /lɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡjɪ/ /lɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gi/ /lawX/
Li
Rong
/ɡi/ /lɑuX/
Wang
Li
/ɡi/ /lɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/gi/ /lɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kei4 lou5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ gij › ‹ lawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*rij/ /*C.rˁuʔ/
English old old

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 17332 7666
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡri/ /*ruːʔ/

Noun

耆老

  1. (literary) aged person; person of old age (especially venerable one)

Synonyms