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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)
On readings
ロウ
Kun readings
おいるふける
Variant forms
耂Words with 老
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —老人施設old folks' home
- —生病老死birth, illness, old age and death
- —老人介護care for the aged; elderly care; aged care
- —老人問題problems of the elderly; problems of an aging society
- —老人医学geriatrics; geriatric medicine
- —長老政治gerontocracy
- —老老介護old people providing care for old people (parents, siblings, in-laws, etc.)
- —老人遺棄historical practice of abandoning old people in the mountains, etc.
- —下流老人impoverished elderly; poor senior citizens
- —老後資金savings for old age; retirement savings
- —敬老パスdiscount pass for the elderly
- —敬老手帳discount pass for the elderly
- —老成円熟experience that comes with age
- —老人病学geriatrics; geriatric medicine
- —老年医学geriatrics; geriatric medicine
- —老年病学geriatrics; geriatric medicine
- —不老長生perpetual youth and longevity; long life without growing old
- —老年痴呆senile dementia
- —老人性愛gerontophilia
- —老人と海The Old Man and the Sea (1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway)