Chinese symbol for “geezer”
老拙
lǎo zhuō
old fart (usually in self-reference); geezer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for geezer is 老拙 (lǎo zhuō), defined as: old fart (usually in self-reference); geezer.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 老拙.
| 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 |
| 笨拙 | bèn zhuō | clumsy; awkward |
| 拙劣 | zhuō liè | clumsy; botched |
| 弄巧成拙 | nòng qiǎo chéng zhuō | to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face |
See also: Japanese symbol for “geezer”.
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.