老 — old man, old age, grow old

ろう老 old man

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+8001 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #803 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1340 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories. Radical #125 耂

Meanings

old man
old age
grow old

word

ろう rou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

老(ろう) rou old age 老(ろう) 人(じん) roujin elderly person 老(ろう) 後(ご) rougo old age 長(ちょう) 老(ろう) chourou elder 老(ろう) 化(か) rouka aging 養(よう) 老(ろう) yourou caring for the elderly

Jukujikun Jukujikun Jukujikun (熟字訓) — special readings where the pronunciation applies to the whole compound word rather than individual kanji. The reading cannot be split per character.

海老(えび) ebi shrimp 老舗(しにせ) shinise long-established shop

Appears in idioms

不老不死四字熟語

negative, old man, negative, death

老若男女四字熟語

old man, young, male, woman

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

耂 old (top component)

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#125 老 old kanmuri 耂 top