"老中" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: lǎozhōng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄌㄠˇ ㄓㄨㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo], lǎozhōng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄌㄠˇ ㄓㄨㄥ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], lǎojhong [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], lao³-chung¹ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], lǎu-jūng [Mandarin, Yale, standard], laojong [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], лаочжун [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], laočžun [Mandarin, Palladius, standard]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 老中
  1. (historical) "elder", political role in the Tokugawa shogunate (江戶幕府/江户幕府) Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-老中-zh-noun-HiCKNtB1 Categories (other): History of Japan Disambiguation of History of Japan: 70 30
  2. (American (1980–), slang) a Chinese person, Chinese immigrants Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-老中-zh-noun-9f2IRprS Categories (other): American (1980–) Chinese, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 41 6 29 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 老外 (lǎowài), 老美 (lǎoměi), 老黑 (lǎohēi), 老墨 (lǎomò), 老印 (lǎoyìn), 老白男 (lǎobáinán)

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [ɾo̞ːʑɨː] Forms: 老中 [canonical] (ruby: (ろう), (じゅう)), 老中 [canonical] (ruby: 老中(ろうちゅう)), rōjū [romanization], rōchū [romanization], raudyuu [romanization], らうぢゅう [hiragana, historical]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|ろうじゅう|ろうちゅう|hhira=らうぢゅう}} 老(ろう)中(じゅう) or 老中(ろうちゅう) • (rōjū or rōchū) ^(←らうぢゅう (raudyuu)?)
  1. (historical) member of the council of elders during the Muromachi period; an elder Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-老中-ja-noun-KWtMdfc0 Categories (other): Japanese terms with multiple readings Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 23 37 40
  2. (historical) a senior vassal to a daimyo during the Muromachi or the Sengoku period Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-老中-ja-noun-GZWa8hos Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Japanese terms with multiple readings Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 17 23 8 36 16 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 23 37 40
  3. (historical) a senior administrator, serving directly under the shogun, during the Tokugawa shogunate; elder Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-老中-ja-noun-YZqYBG3X Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 25 31 44 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 32 24 44 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 31 25 44 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 23 32 46 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 23 37 40 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 31 27 41
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    },
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      ],
      "zh-pron": "lǎu-jūng"
    },
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        "Mandarin",
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      ],
      "zh-pron": "laojong"
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        "Palladius",
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      ],
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    },
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      ],
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      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/"
    }
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}

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    {
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    },
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
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      "zh-pron": "lao³-chung¹"
    },
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "zh-pron": "lǎu-jūng"
    },
    {
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        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
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      "zh-pron": "laojong"
    },
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        "Mandarin",
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      "zh-pron": "лаочжун"
    },
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        "Mandarin",
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/",
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      "ipa": "/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/"
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}

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    "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
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    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
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Download raw JSONL data for 老中 meaning in All languages combined (4.6kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.