Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- sǒu
English
- old man
- old gentleman
- elder
- old man
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Variants
Words containing 叟
- 老叟lou5 sau2
old man
- 喬叟kiu4 sau2
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]
- 北叟失馬bak1 sau2 sat1 maa5
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
- 童叟無欺tung4 sau2 mou4 hei1
cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously
- 野叟曝言je5 sau2 buk6 jin4
Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠[Xia4 Jing4 qu2]