高 gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 高 — tall, lofty
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
高龄
gāolíng
advanced age; elderly
Characters in this word
龄 líng
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 齿 — teeth
- Made of
- 齿 teeth 令 command, decree, order
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这位高龄学者仍坚持亲自修改论文，连标点都不愿交给助手处理。 Zhè wèi gāolíng xuézhě réng jiānchí qīnzì xiūgǎi lùnwén, lián biāodiǎn dōu bú yuàn jiāo gěi zhùshǒu chǔlǐ. This elderly scholar still insists on revising papers personally, and is unwilling to leave even the punctuation to an assistant.
- 九十岁高龄的奶奶，每天还坚持散步。 Jiǔshí suì gāolíng de nǎinai, měitiān hái jiānchí sànbù. Grandma, at the ripe old age of ninety, still insists on a walk every day.
- 社区为高龄老人提供免费的体检服务。 Shèqū wèi gāolíng lǎorén tígōng miǎnfèi de tǐjiǎn fúwù. The neighbourhood offers free health check-ups for very elderly people.