My parents told me that I need to respect old people.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
老年人
old people; the elderly
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
old people; the elderly
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 老年人 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老年人 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
An elderly person in my family suddenly fell to the ground; he likely suffered a stroke.
Now rabbit skins were being bought, and young men and even older men hunted rabbits and, after killing them, took the skins and threw away the meat.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 老年人.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老年人.
Directly before
- 有个老年人1
- 一拨老年人1
- 尊重老年人1
- 甚至老年人1
Directly after
- 老年人突然1
- 老年人都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 老年人
What does 老年人 mean in Chinese?
老年人 (lǎoniánrén) means old people; the elderly.
How do you pronounce 老年人?
老年人 is pronounced lǎoniánrén.
Is 老年人 an HSK word?
老年人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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