"老衲" meaning in Chinese

See 老衲 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /lou̯¹³ naːp̚²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹/, /lou̯¹³ naːp̚²/ Chinese transliterations: lǎonà [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], lou⁵ naap⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], lǎonà [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], lǎonà [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], lao³-na⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], lǎu-nà [Mandarin, Yale, standard], laonah [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], лаона [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], laona [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], lóuh naahp [Cantonese, Yale], lou⁵ naap⁹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], lou⁵ nab⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 老衲
  1. (literary) elderly Buddhist monk Tags: literary Synonyms: 老僧 (lǎosēng)
    Sense id: en-老衲-zh-noun-yaYXT-3U Categories (other): Buddhism Disambiguation of Buddhism: 100 0 0

Pronoun

IPA: /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /lou̯¹³ naːp̚²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ nä⁵¹/, /lou̯¹³ naːp̚²/ Chinese transliterations: lǎonà [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], lou⁵ naap⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], lǎonà [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄌㄠˇ ㄋㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], lǎonà [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], lao³-na⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], lǎu-nà [Mandarin, Yale, standard], laonah [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], лаона [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], laona [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], lóuh naahp [Cantonese, Yale], lou⁵ naap⁹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], lou⁵ nab⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Head templates: {{head|zh|pronoun}} 老衲
  1. (dated) A form of self-address used by old monks. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-老衲-zh-pron-Po2uSCkY
  2. (neologism, slang, humorous) an experienced and senile person who has seen it all, referring to oneself. Tags: humorous, neologism, slang
    Sense id: en-老衲-zh-pron-P51qu-E~ Categories (other): Chinese neologisms, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese pronouns, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Monasticism, People Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 13 13 75 Disambiguation of Chinese pronouns: 6 23 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 5 86 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 4 89 Disambiguation of Monasticism: 32 4 64 Disambiguation of People: 0 0 100
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 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.