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What does 老人家 mean?

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老人家 lǎorenjia

(polite) elderly person; old person

Its characters

  1. 家 jia (suffix) used after some nouns for a kind of person (as in 姑娘家)

In a sentence

您老人家身体还好吗? Are you keeping well, sir?

我听老人家说,王莽篡汉之时,天降此山,山下压着一个神猴,冻不死,也饿不死。

From 救出悟空 · Freed from the Mountain

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