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老身

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Chinese

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old; aged; venerable
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
 
body; torso; person
body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
 
trad. (老身)
simp. #(老身)

Etymology

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First attested in Beishi:

老身二十侍中先君職事後進排突 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
老身二十侍中先君职事后进排突 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: c. 659 CE, Li Yanshou, History of the Northern Dynasties
Lǎoshēn èrshí nián shìzhōng, yǔ qīng xiānjūn jí lián zhíshì, zòng qīng hòujìn, hé yí xiàng páitū yě! [Pinyin]
I was a shizhong for twenty years, being your father's colleague. Although you came into duty later [than me], how come you exclude me?!

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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老身

  1. (literary, humble, chiefly women's speech) I; me (used by an elderly woman)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
ろう
Grade: 4
しん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(ろう)(しん) (rōshin

  1. (one’s own) old body; old age
    (せい)(しゅん)()ぎて(ろう)(しん)(のこ)る。
    Seishun wa sugite rōshin ga nokoru.
    Youth has passed and these old bones remain.
    • 2015 April 26, “Hibakusha nanajū nen: mienu ‘kaku naki seikai’ [Atomic bombing survivors 70 years on: won't see ‘a world without weapons’]”, in Mainichi Shimbun, page 9:
      ()(ばく )70(ななじゅう)(ねん)(とし)(ひら)かれる(エヌ)(ピー)(ティー)( さい)(けん)(とう)(かい)()()わせ、()(ばく)(しゃ)たちが(ろう)(しん)()してニューヨークに()かい、かの()(しょう)(げん)する。
      Hibaku nanajū-nen no toshi ni hirakareru Enu-Pī-Tī saikentō kaigi ni awase, hibakusha-tachi ga rōshin o oshite Nyū Yōku ni mukai, kano chi de shōgen suru.
      Convened seventy years after the bombings, this conference to reappraise the NPT [non-proliferation treaty] requires atomic bomb survivors to push their old bodies to New York to give testimony there.