elderly loyalist of a former dynasty; former official who remains loyal after a dynastic change
trad. 遺老
Also written 遺老【yí lǎo】
Characters in this word
2遗
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(bound form) to leave behind
- Pinyin
- yí
- Traditional
- 遺
- Strokes
- 12
老
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old (of people), venerable (person), experienced, of long standing, always, all the time, of the past, very, outdated, (of meat etc) tough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