老家
Meaning
- native place
- place of origin
- home state or region
Example sentence
他住得离老家很远。
He lives far away from his hometown.
Characters in 老家
- 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
- 家 jiā home
老 old plus 家, home. The home one comes from, and 老 here means long-standing rather than aged.