Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
old 老 (耂)
Parts:
old man, old age, grow old
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
803 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 老 【ロウ】 old age, age, old people, the old, the aged, senior, elder, I, me, my humble self
  • 老化 【ロウカ】 ageing, aging, senile deterioration
  • 養老 【ヨウロウ】 making provision for the elderly, making provision for one's old age, spending one's old age in comfort, Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
  • 敬老 【ケイロウ】 respect for the aged

Kun reading compounds

  • 老いる 【おいる】 to age, to grow old
  • 老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age

Readings

Japanese names:
えび、 おい、 び
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lao3
Korean:
ro

Spanish

  • envejecer
  • viejo
  • experimentado
  • hacerse viejo

Portuguese

  • velho
  • velhice
  • envelhecer

French

  • vieillard
  • âgé
  • vieillir
541 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
638 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
609 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
788 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3683 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
637 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
837 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
334 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
543 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
552 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
737 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1576 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3963 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2040 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2754 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1259 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
28842 Morohashi
3197 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4696 New Nelson (John Haig)
1251 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1340 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
472 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1456 2001 Kanji
2k4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-2 SKIP code
4471.1 Four corner code
1-47-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8001 Unicode hex code

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On reading compounds

  • 好々爺 【コウコウヤ】 good-natured old man
  • 老爺 【ロウヤ】 old man

Kun reading compounds

  • 爺 【じじ】 old man, old geezer
  • 爺さん 【じいさん】 grandfather, male senior-citizen
  • 子泣き爺 【こなきじじい】 Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)
  • 狸爺 【たぬきじじい】 cunning old man
  • 爺 【じじ】 old man, old geezer
  • 子泣き爺 【こなきじじい】 Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)
  • 狸爺 【たぬきじじい】 cunning old man
  • 爺 【じじ】 old man, old geezer
  • ジジ臭い 【ジジくさい】 old-mannish

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ye2
Korean:
ya

Spanish

  • anciano
  • viejo
  • abuelo

Portuguese

French

2835 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2656 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
19734 Morohashi
3517 New Nelson (John Haig)
2334 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2423 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2o10.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-9 SKIP code
8012.7 Four corner code
1-44-76 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
723a Unicode hex code