lǎo

  1. lǎo adjective old; aged; elderly; aging
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 老馬識途 'an old horse knows the road', from Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (ABC 'lǎo' 老 sv 1; DCP 'L50'; Kroll 2015 '老' 1; Unihan '老')
  2. lǎo noun Kangxi radical 125
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
    Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
  3. lǎo prefix indicates seniority or age
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this use, 老 is a prefix used with a person's surname to indicate seniority or with numbers to indicate order or birth amongst brothers and sisters in a familar. For example, 老大 'eldest child' (ABC 'lǎo' 老 prefix 1; Kroll 2015 '老' 1a; Norman 1988, p. 113; Sun 2006, loc. 691).
  4. lǎo adjective vegetables that have become old and tough
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 sv 4)
  5. lǎo adverb always
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: Note that in this sense 老 is used before the verb it modifies (ABC 'lǎo' 老 adv 2; Sun 2006, loc. 2053)
  6. lǎo adverb very
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 adv 1)
  7. lǎo adjective experienced
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Unihan '老')
  8. lǎo bound form humble self-reference
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Bound with 老身 'oldy' (Kroll 2015 '老' 1b)
  9. lǎo adjective of long standing
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 sv 2)
  10. lǎo adjective dark
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Color
    Notes: Of colors (ABC 'lǎo' 老 sv 5)
  11. lǎo adjective outdated
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 sv 3)
  12. lǎo noun old people; the elderly
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 n 1)
  13. lǎo noun parents
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Family
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 n 2)
  14. lǎo prefix indicates familiarity
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this use, 老 is a diminutive venacular form used with a person's surname to indicate familiarity. For example, Lao Wang 老王, for somebody whose surname is Wang (ABC 'lǎo' 老 prefix 2; Kroll 2015 '老' 1a; Norman 1988, p. 113; Sun 2006, loc. 691).
  15. lǎo adverb for a long time
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: (ABC 'lǎo' 老 adv 3)
  16. lǎo adjective old; jarā
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: jarā; Japanese: rou, Tibetan: rga ba (BCSD '老', p. 952; Mahāvyutpatti 'jarā'; MW 'jarā'; Lusthaus 2002, p. 544; SH '老', p. 218; Unihan '老')

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 72
  • Scroll 8 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 41
  • Scroll 12 Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經 — count: 38 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 20 Abhidharmavibhāṣāśāstra (Apitan Pi Po Sha Lun) 阿毘曇毘婆沙論 — count: 34
  • Scroll 4 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 33
  • Scroll 6 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 33 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Catuḥsatyaśāstra (Si Di Lun) 四諦論 — count: 32
  • Scroll 8 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 32 , has English translation
  • Scroll 2 Bian Wei Lu 辯偽錄 — count: 29
  • Scroll 8 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 29

Collocations

  • 老法 (老法) 我今具有如是老法 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 4 — count: 19
  • 尊长老 (尊長老) 上尊長老比丘 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 19
  • 缘老 (緣老) 生緣老 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 10 — count: 11
  • 老比丘 (老比丘) 天取老比丘 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 10
  • 谓老 (謂老) 是謂老衰 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 31 — count: 6
  • 老时 (老時) 謂眾生老時 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 7 — count: 6
  • 缘生老 (緣生老) 緣生老 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 6
  • 老朽 (老朽) 又復云何名知老朽 — Hu Guo Jing 護國經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 名为老 (名為老) 是名為老 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 7 — count: 5
  • 老衰 (老衰) 老衰 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 31 — count: 5