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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
teacher
boss / proprietor
(coll.) wife
God / Heavens
honest / sincere / well-behaved / naive / gullible
(coll.) husband
(coll.) eunuch / see also 老公[]
old friend / (slang) period / menstruation
old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
old fellow / old man / father / husband
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
(dialect) father / old man / sir
(affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal
God / Heavens
(coll.) old fellow / old codger
always
very far away
second-eldest child in a family / (euphemism) penis
native place / place of origin / home state or region
(coll.) eagle / hawk / any similar bird of prey
(coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man
old-fashioned / old type / outdated
old friend / sb who passed the county level imperial exam (in Ming dynasty)
father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
old woman (at times contemptuous)
old soldier / veteran / veteran (sb who has a lot of experience in some domain)
form of address for a (slightly) older man (esp. among males)
polite term for old woman or man
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
old people / the elderly
elderly / old age / autumn of one's years
ancient / old / age-old
elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk
senior figure / doyen / founding member / veteran
pension
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