Entry
  1. ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom); the older, the wiser

    trad. 薑還是老的辣

Also written 薑還是老的辣【jiāng hái shì lǎo de là】

Characters in this word

6
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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, old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough

Pinyin
lǎo
Strokes
6
Frequency
511 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

of; ~'s (possessive particle), (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun), (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis), (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"), also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

Pinyin
de
Strokes
8
Frequency
1 of 2500