Elderly in Chinese
the elderly · HSK 3
老人
- 老 old
- 人 person
Counted with 位: 一位老人
公交车上要给老人让座。 You should give your seat to the elderly on the bus.
Other ways to say elderly
More words with 老 or 人
How do you say elderly in Chinese?
Elderly in Chinese is 老人 (lǎo rén). You can also say 老年 (lǎo nián).
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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.