老

Pinyin: lǎo

old; elderly; long-standing; (prefix before surnames or birth order, as in 老王, 老大)

🏮 Chinese HSK 3 adjectiveprefix

Example sentence

我不老。

Wǒ bù lǎo.

I'm not old.

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What 老 means

老 (lǎo) is an Chinese word meaning “old; elderly; long-standing; (prefix before surnames or birth order, as in 老王, 老大)”. It appears in the HSK 3 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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