Entry
  1. hackneyed; well-worn (phrase etc); same old story; stereotypical fashion

Characters in this word

2
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old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough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

to cover, to encase, cover, sheath, to overlap, to interleave, to model after, to copy, formula, harness, loop of rope, (fig.) to fish for, to obtain slyly, classifier for sets, collections, bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names), tau (Greek letter Ττ)

Pinyin
tào
Strokes
10
Frequency
5858 of 2500