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老 kanji
old man, old age, grow old
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
ロウ
Kun readings
おいるふける
Variant forms
耂Words with 老
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3老人Popularold person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
- N1老衰Popularsenility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)
- —敬老Popularrespect for the aged
- —元老Popularelder statesman; doyen; old-timer; authority; genrō (member of a pre-WWII body that informally advised the emperor)
- —初老Popularpast middle age; nearing old age; near-elderly; age 40
- —長老Popularelder; senior; senior monk; dean; presbyter; patriarch
- —老朽Popularinfirmity (due to old age); decrepitude; senility; senescence; superannuation
- —老後Popularold age
- —老子PopularLaozi; Lao Tzu; Lao Tse
- —老婆Popularold woman
- —老齢Popularold age; advanced age
- —老若Popularyoung and old; all ages
- —老化Popularageing; aging; senile deterioration
- —老眼Popularpresbyopia; age-related longsightedness; farsightedness
- —老婦Popularold woman
- —老年Popularold age
- —養老Popularmaking provision for the elderly; making provision for one's old age; spending one's old age in comfort; Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
- —老女Popularelderly woman; senior lady-in-waiting
- —養老院Popularhome for the aged; old people's home
- —老人性Popularsenile (dementia, cataract, etc.)