老人
Meaning
- old man or woman
- the elderly
- one's aged parents or grandparents
Example sentence
善待老人。
Be kind to old people.
Characters in 老人
- 老 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
- 人 rén person; people
老 old plus 人 person. Unlike 老师, where 老 is respect, here it is genuinely age.