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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
老子
father
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
father
02
daddy
03
"I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt)
04
I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 老子 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老子 appears in 26 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Laozi's real name was Li Er.
Laozi is an honorific title given to him by others.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 老子.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老子.
Directly before
- 用老子2
- 关外老子1
- 想当年老子1
- 别以为老子1
- 事情老子1
Directly after
- 老子的3
- 老子要2
- 老子是2
- 老子与1
- 老子说了算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 老子
What does 老子 mean in Chinese?
老子 (lǎozi) means father.
How do you pronounce 老子?
老子 is pronounced lǎozi.
Is 老子 an HSK word?
老子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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