中

老

Unicode: U+8001

Pinyin: lǎo

Definition

* 年纪大，时间长，有经验，陈旧的。 ～当益壮。～朋友。～练。～化。少年～成。～马识途。 * 对年纪大的人的尊称。 吴～。～人家。～大爷。 * 极，很。 ～早。～羞成怒。 * 老年人。 敬～院。扶～携幼。～有所为（ wéi ）。 * 晚年。 ～年。～境。 * 敬老，养老："～吾老，以及人之老。" * 总是，经常。 ～是生病。 * 原来的。 ～地方。 * 与"嫩"相对。 黄瓜长～了。 * 词头，用于表排行，用于表相互尊称，或加在某些动植物名前构成多音节词。 ～大。～鹰。～倭瓜。 * 老子（中国先秦思想家）及其学说的简称。 * 死的讳称。 ～了。 * 〔～板〕指业主或企业的经营者。 * 姓

old, aged; experienced

Structure

老 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC