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老

JLPT N3 SL4 6 strokes Frequency: #803

Meanings

Old Man, Old Age, Grow Old

Radicals

老

Decomposition

⿱耂匕

Etymology

Pictographic: A person bent over with long hair 匕 and a crutch; compare 耂

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

5 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ロウ rou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

お o

ふ fu

Words Using This Kanji

256 words total

Other (20 words)

retirement home

old age

to age

old age

old person

solicitude

old man

Laozi

senility

infirmity (due to old age)

老若男女ろうにゃくなんにょ

men and women of all ages

老婆ろうば

old woman

老人性ろうじんせい

senile (dementia, cataract, etc.)

老若ろうにゃく

young and old

老舗しにせ

long-established shop

老弱ろうじゃく

infirmities of old age

伊勢海老いせえび

spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)

海老えび

prawn

年老としおい

old person

家老かろう

chief retainer

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