終老

Chinese

		end; finish	old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
trad. (終老)		終	老
simp. (终老)		终	老

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōnglǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄌㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ lou⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōnglǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄌㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhonglǎo
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹-lao³
    • Yale: jūng-lǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jonglao
    • Palladius: чжунлао (čžunlao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹ lou⁵
    • Yale: jūng lóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ lou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ lou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ lou̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwng lawX

Rime
Character	終	老
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	職戎切	盧晧切
Baxter	tsyuwng	lawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/	/lɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/lɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/lɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/	/lawX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/lɑuX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/	/lɑuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/	/lɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng	lǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1	lou5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ  C.rˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ  ruːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	終	老
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng	lǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwng ›	‹ lawX ›
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/	/*C.rˁuʔ/
English	end	old
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	終	老
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2428	7666
Phonetic component	冬	老
Rime group	終	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	終	老
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/	/*ruːʔ/

Verb

終老

1. to live out one's years

   孤獨終老／孤独终老  ―  gūdú zhōnglǎo  ―  to die alone; to die a lonely death