Chinese symbol for “senile”
老迈
lǎo mài
Traditional: 老邁
aged; senile
The closest CC-CEDICT match for senile is 老迈 (lǎo mài), defined as: aged; senile.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “senile”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老态龙钟 (老態龍鍾) | lǎo tài lóng zhōng | (idiom) doddering; senile |
| 惛耄 | hūn mào | senile; senility |
| 龙钟 (龍鍾) | lóng zhōng | decrepit; senile |
| 老耄 | lǎo mào | dim sight of the aged; doddering |
| 颓老 (頹老) | tuí lǎo | old and decrepit; senile |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 老迈.
| 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 |
| 迈进 (邁進) | mài jìn | to step in; to stride forward |
| 迈向 (邁向) | mài xiàng | to stride toward (success); to march toward |
| 迈出 (邁出) | mài chū | to step out; to take a (first) step |
See also: Japanese symbol for “senile”.
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.