| lǎo | 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/ |
| 老 | 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) |
| 老一套 | the same old stuff |
| 老一套的 | banal; groovelike |
| 老一辈 | previous generation older generation |
| 老丈 | (formal) Sir CL:位 |
| 老丈人 | father-in-law |
| 老三届 | junior and senior high school graduates of 1966~1968; school leavers of 1966~1968 |
| 老三篇 | Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established |
| 老不死的 | A contemptuous name for old man. |
| 老两口 | an old married couple |
| 老两口儿 | an old married couple |
| 老中青 | the aged, middle aged person and young man |
| 老主顾 | regular; regular customer; old customer |
| 老乌恰 | same as 烏魯克恰提|乌鲁克恰提 in Xinjiang |
| 老乡 | fellow townsman fellow villager sb from the same hometown |
| 老了 | getting old |
| 老二 | the second child or brother (or sister) penis (slang) |
| 老于世故 | experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise sophisticated |
| 老交情 | long-standing friendship; an old friend |
| 老亲 | old parents; old relatives |