Entry
  1. capital; assets; savings; nest egg; (fig.) reputation; laurels (to rest upon); old edition of a book; (tree) trunk

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old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough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

(bound form) root; stem, (bound form) origin; source, (bound form) one's own; this, (bound form) this; the current (year etc), (bound form) original, (bound form) inherent, originally; initially, capital; principal, classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

Pinyin
běn
Strokes
5
Frequency
799 of 2500