shuāi lǎo

HSK 7–9

衰老 (shuāi lǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “to age; to deteriorate with age; old and weak”.

Meanings

  1. 1to age
  2. 2to deteriorate with age
  3. 3old and weak
Part of speech
adjective

Characters in 衰老

衰shuāi · (bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane老lǎo · 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

Related words

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