老子
Lǎo zǐ
Traditional: 老子
TOCFL 5
Meaning
Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi
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Stroke order
LÃO · 6 strokes
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person);
TỬ · 3 strokes
son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility
Related words
- 老师 lǎo shī — teacher
- 老 lǎo — prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- 老虎 lǎo hǔ — tiger
- 老板 lǎo bǎn — variant of 老板
- 老鼠 lǎo shǔ — rat; mouse
- 老实 lǎo shi — honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible
- 古老 gǔ lǎo — ancient; old; age-old
- 老百姓 lǎo bǎi xìng — ordinary people; the "person in the street"