We still have an old tube television.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
老式
old-fashioned
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
old-fashioned
02
old type
03
outdated
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 老式 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老式 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm just a plain old office worker.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 老式.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老式.
Directly before
- 的老式1
- 个老式1
Directly after
- 老式上班族1
- 老式电视机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 老式
What does 老式 mean in Chinese?
老式 (lǎoshì) means old-fashioned.
How do you pronounce 老式?
老式 is pronounced lǎoshì.
Is 老式 an HSK word?
老式 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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