WordTaiwan frequency #6,227
老年人
ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄖㄣˊ
“old people; the elderly; senior citizens; older adults”
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老
ㄌㄠˇ
Old; aged; experienced; venerable; of long standing; prefix for elders or familiar people; outdated; tough (food); always.
年
ㄋㄧㄢˊ
year; age; harvest; time period; surname Nian surname
人
ㄖㄣˊ
person; people; mankind; human being; someone else; other people; each person; a certain type or identity of person; character or disposition; surname.
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Words sharing these characters
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- 今年ㄐㄧㄣ ㄋㄧㄢˊthis year; the current year
- 去年ㄑㄩˋ ㄋㄧㄢˊthe year before this one; the previous calendar year
- 老師ㄌㄠˇ ㄕteacher; a respectful term for someone who teaches or mentors; in imperial times, a student's formal address to an examiner
- 人員ㄖㄣˊ ㄩㄢˊstaff; crew; personnel; people assigned to a role or task.
- 別人ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄖㄣˊother people; someone else; a person distinct from oneself or the group mentioned.
- 個人˙ㄍㄜ ㄖㄣˊan individual; a single person; oneself; personal; (informal) one's partner or lover
- 人生ㄖㄣˊ ㄕㄥlife; a person's lifetime on earth; human existence; the course of one's life from birth to death
- 年輕ㄋㄧㄢˊ ㄑㄧㄥyoung; youthful; not old; in the early stage of life or development.
- 人類ㄖㄣˊ ㄌㄟˋhumanity; the human race; mankind; human beings as a whole.
- 人民ㄖㄣˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊthe people; citizens of a country with rights and obligations; the general populace.
- 人們ㄖㄣˊ ˙ㄇㄣpeople; individuals in general; everyone; the public; human beings collectively.
- 人士ㄖㄣˊ ㄕˋperson; figure; public figure; a term for people in general; a personage