老話

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (老話)		老	話
simp. (老话)		老	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎohuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎohuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎohuà
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-hua⁴
    • Yale: lǎu-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laohuah
    • Palladius: лаохуа (laoxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎohuàr
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎohuàr
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-hua⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: lǎu-hwàr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laohuall
    • Palladius: лаохуар (laoxuar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑɻ⁵¹/

Noun

老話

1. old saying; proverb

   • 中國人有一句老話：「不入虎穴，焉得虎子。」這句話對於人們的實踐是真理，對於認識論也是真理。 [MSC, trad.]
     中国人有一句老话：「不入虎穴，焉得虎子。」这句话对于人们的实践是真理，对于认识论也是真理。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhōngguórén yǒu yī jù lǎohuà: “Bù rù hǔxué, yān dé hǔzǐ.” Zhè jù huà duìyú rénmen de shíjiàn shì zhēnlǐ, duìyú rènshilùn yě shì zhēnlǐ. [Pinyin]

     There is an old Chinese saying, “How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?” This saying holds true for human's practice and it also holds true for the theory of knowledge.

2. remark about the old days