(coll.) Alzheimer's disease
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Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.
presenilins
common people / average people / hoi polloi
(Chinese folk religion) the god of matchmaking / (idiom) matchmaker
(Chinese folk religion) the god of matchmaking / (fig.) matchmaker
to admit to one's advancing years / to acquiesce to old age
to age prematurely
common name for cormorant
gas guzzler
splendid and powerful (of story) / majestic / awesome
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
(idiom) backwoods / wilderness
(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
elders
lit. a dog who catches mice (idiom) / fig. to be meddlesome
bachelor (lit. fifth child of the Wangs)
men, women, young and old / everybody
(idiom) (of a married couple) to live together until old age / to remain lifelong companions
centenarian
hot spell during autumn / Indian summer
fake important personage / sham
just who do (you) think (you) are? (or "just who does (she) think (she) is?" etc)
paper tiger
to spend one's last years
to look to the past for guidance (idiom)
to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)
coxswain / steersman / boatswain (bo'sun)
(literary) person aged over fifty / elderly person
(coll.) jumping spider (which pounces on houseflies, hence the Chinese name)
ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom) / fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
carer of elderly persons / aged care worker
to grow old / to age / aging
the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom) / hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears
to recover one's youthful vigor / to feel rejuvenated (idiom)
sb or sth detested by all / target of scorn / anathema / cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打[]
to make (products, living spaces etc) suitable for the elderly / (attributive) senior-friendly / elder-accessible
elderly loyalist of a former dynasty / former official who remains loyal after a dynastic change
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27