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元老

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yuán lǎo

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Definitions

  1. 1. senior figure
  2. 2. elder
  3. 3. doyen

Words Containing 元老

元老院
yuán lǎo yuàn

upper house

八大元老
bā dà yuán lǎo

\the Eight Great Eminent Officials\ of the CCP, namely 鄧小平|邓小平[dèng xiǎo píng], 陳雲|陈云[chén yún], 李先念[lǐ xiān niàn], 彭真[péng zhēn], 楊尚昆|杨尚昆[yáng shàng kūn], 薄一波[bó yī bō], 王震[wáng zhèn], and 宋任窮|宋任穷[sòng rèn qióng]

Child Words of 元老

元
yuán

currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)

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

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