Chinese symbol for “aging”
老龄化
lǎo líng huà
Traditional: 老齡化
aging (population)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for aging is 老龄化 (lǎo líng huà), defined as: aging (population).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “aging”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老龄 (老齡) | lǎo líng | old age; aging |
| 时效 (時效) | shí xiào | timeliness; period of viability or validity |
| 变老 (變老) | biàn lǎo | to grow old; to age |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 老龄化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老师 (老師) | lǎo shī | teacher |
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | variant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn) |
| 老人 | lǎo rén | old man or woman; the elderly |
| 老公 | lǎo gōng | (coll.) husband |
| 年龄 (年齡) | nián líng | (a person's) age; measure word: 把 (bǎ), 个 (gè) |
| 高龄 (高齡) | gāo líng | elderly |
| 老龄 (老齡) | lǎo líng | old age; aging |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
See also: Japanese symbol for “aging”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.