老年

Character by character

• 老lǎo6 strokesHSK 1old, aged; experienced; Kangxi radical 125
• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 老年. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 年niánHSK 1

  grain; harvest (old); variant of 年

• 老lǎoHSK 1

  prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough

• 老师lǎo shīHSK 1

  teacher

• 今年jīn niánHSK 1

  this year

• 去年qù niánHSK 1

  last year

• 年轻nián qīngHSK 2

  young

• 老板lǎo bǎnHSK 3

  boss; business proprietor

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

  a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period

• 老婆lǎo póHSK 4

  (coll.) wife

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 老公lǎo gongHSK 4

  (coll.) eunuch; see also 公

• 老人lǎo rénHSK 1

  old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 当年dāng niánHSK 5

  in those days; then; in those years; during that time

• 新年xīn niánHSK 1

  New Year

• 年纪nián jìHSK 3

  age

• 老大lǎo dàHSK 7

  old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang

• 青年qīng niánHSK 2

  youth; youthful years; young person; the young

• 周年zhōu niánHSK 2

  anniversary; annual

• 年度nián dùHSK 5

  year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual

• 少年shào niánHSK 2

  early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man

• 青少年qīng shào niánHSK 2

  adolescent; youth; teenager

• 老鼠lǎo shǔ

  rat; mouse

• 多年duō niánHSK 4

  many years; for many years; longstanding