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Aged in Chinese

aged · HSK 3

老 lǎo

我的爷爷已经很老了。 My grandfather is already very old.

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How do you say aged in Chinese?

Aged in Chinese is 老 (lǎo). You can also say 迈 (mài).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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