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Mythic Mandarin

养老 (yǎng lǎo): meaning and stroke order

养老 (yǎng lǎo) means to provide for the elderly (family members), to enjoy a life in retirement.

养老

Simplified
养老
Traditional
養老
Pinyin
yǎng lǎo

Stroke order of 养老

养

  • yǎng to raise (animals); to bring up (children)
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 養

Stroke by stroke

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; old (of people)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 养老

  1. yǎng lǎo Traditional 養老
    • to provide for the elderly (family members)
    • to enjoy a life in retirement

Radicals of the characters

养
Radical 八 (Kangxi radical 12) · 9 strokes
老
Radical 老 (Kangxi radical 125) · 6 strokes · 耂 on top, 匕 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).