老家

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
trad. (老家)		老	家
simp. #(老家)		老	家
anagram		家老

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎojiā

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵ gaa¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): 'lau³ ga¹
• Jin (Wiktionary): lau² jia¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): láu-ke / láu-kee / láu-ka

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lao⁶ gê¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎojiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎojia
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-chia¹
    • Yale: lǎu-jyā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laojia
    • Palladius: лаоцзя (laoczja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (老家兒 / 老家儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎojiār
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄚㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎojiar
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-chia¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: lǎu-jyār
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laojial
    • Palladius: лаоцзяр (laoczjar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/

Note: lǎojiār - “one's elders, especially one's parents”.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁵ gaa¹
    • Yale: lóuh gā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ gaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ ga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ kaː⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: 'lau³ ga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈlau²¹³⁻¹³ ka⁴²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: lau² jia¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /lau⁵³ t͡ɕia¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-ke
    • Tâi-lô: láu-ke
    • Phofsit Daibuun: law'kef
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ke³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-kee
    • Tâi-lô: láu-kee
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɛ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-ka
    • Tâi-lô: láu-ka
    • Phofsit Daibuun: law'kaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ka³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ka⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: lao⁶ gê¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lău ke
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau³⁵⁻¹¹ ke³³/

Noun

老家

1. one's original or family home; one's native place; one's place of origin
2. one's ancestral hometown
3. (figuratively, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) the other side; heaven or hell; afterworld; netherworld
4. (dialectal, often erhua-ed) one's elders, especially one's parents

Synonyms

• (one's original home):

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• 土 (literary, or in compounds)
• 家鄉 / 家乡 (jiāxiāng)
• 故國 / 故国 (gùguó) (literary)
• 故園 / 故园 (gùyuán) (literary)
• 故土 (gùtǔ)
• 故鄉 / 故乡 (gùxiāng)
• 故里 (gùlǐ)
• 老屋 (Hakka)
• 鄉下 / 乡下
• 鄉土 / 乡土 (xiāngtǔ)
• 鄉梓 / 乡梓 (xiāngzǐ) (literary)
• 鄉關 / 乡关 (xiāngguān) (literary)
• 鄉黨 / 乡党 (xiāngdǎng) (Classical)

• (one's ancestral hometown): 原籍 (yuánjí), 祖籍 (zǔjí), 祖居 (zǔjū)
• (the other side): (figuratively) 黃泉／黄泉 (huángquán), 陰間／阴间 (yīnjiān)

Derived terms

• 回老家 (huí lǎojiā)