老話

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (老話)		老	話
simp. (老话)		老	话

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǎohuà

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Pinyin: lǎohuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laohuah
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǎohuà
  - IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xwä⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    老化
    老話／老话
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Pinyin: lǎohuàr
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋㄦ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laohuall
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǎohuàr
  - IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ xwɑɻ⁵¹/

Noun

老話

old saying; proverb
- 中國人有一句老話：「不入虎穴，焉得虎子。」這句話對於人們的實踐是真理，對於認識論也是真理。 [MSC, trad.]
  中国人有一句老话：“不入虎穴，焉得虎子。”这句话对于人们的实践是真理，对于认识论也是真理。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 毛澤東選集 (1991). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Zhōngguórén yǒu yī jù lǎohuà: “Bù rù hǔxué, yān dé hǔzǐ.” Zhè jù huà duìyú rénmen de shíjiàn shì zhēnlǐ, duìyú rènshilùn yě shì zhēnlǐ. [Pinyin]
  There is an old Chinese saying, “How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?” This saying holds true for human's practice and it also holds true for the theory of knowledge.
remark about the old days

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