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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

年老

niánlǎo

aged

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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aged

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 年老 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 年老 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你能告诉我“年老”的“老”字的笔顺吗?nǐ néng gào sù wǒ “ nián lǎo ” de “ lǎo ” zì de bǐ shùn ma?

Could you tell me the stroke order of the character "lǎo" in the word "niánlǎo"?

我年老退休。wǒ nián lǎo tuì xiū。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 年老.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 年老.

Directly before

  • 我年老1

Directly after

  • 年老退休1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 年老

What does 年老 mean in Chinese?

年老 (niánlǎo) means aged.

How do you pronounce 年老?

年老 is pronounced niánlǎo.

Is 年老 an HSK word?

年老 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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