Chinese symbol for “eldest”
最年长
zuì nián zhǎng
Traditional: 最年長
eldest
The closest CC-CEDICT match for eldest is 最年长 (zuì nián zhǎng), defined as: eldest.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 最年长.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最后 (最後) | zuì hòu | final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end |
| 最高 | zuì gāo | tallest; highest |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently; soon |
| 最终 (最終) | zuì zhōng | final; ultimate |
| 最好 | zuì hǎo | best; had better ...; it would be best to ... |
| 最佳 | zuì jiā | optimum; optimal |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age |
| 今年 | jīn nián | this year |
| 增长 (增長) | zēng zhǎng | to grow; to increase |
See also: Japanese symbol for “eldest”.
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.