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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

老几

lǎojǐ

where in the order of seniority among siblings?

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

where in the order of seniority among siblings?

02

(sometimes used in rhetorical questions to express disparagement)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 老几 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老几 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你在家中排行老几?nǐ zài jiā zhōng pái háng lǎo jǐ?

No published English translation for this sentence.

你算老几?敢在这里撒野!nǐ suàn lǎo jǐ? gǎn zài zhè lǐ sā yě!

No published English translation for this sentence.

我算老几?那能和他相提并论!wǒ suàn lǎo jǐ? nà néng hé tā xiāng tí bìng lùn!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 老几.

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

Directly before

  • 排行老几1
  • 我算老几1
  • 算老几1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 老几

What does 老几 mean in Chinese?

老几 (lǎojǐ) means where in the order of seniority among siblings?.

How do you pronounce 老几?

老几 is pronounced lǎojǐ.

Is 老几 an HSK word?

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

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