父老

Chinese

	father	old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
trad. (父老)	父	老
simp. ^#(父老)	父	老
anagram	老父

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fùlǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ ㄌㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu⁶ lou⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fu-ló

(Hailu, HRS): fu^ˇ lo^ˊ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hu⁵ lor³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hū-ló / hǔ-nó͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fùlǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ ㄌㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fùlǎo
  - Wade–Giles: fu⁴-lao³
  - Yale: fù-lǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuhlao
  - Palladius: фулао (fulao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu⁶ lou⁵
  - Yale: fuh lóuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu⁶ lou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu⁶ lou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː²² lou̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu-ló
  - Hakka Romanization System: fu lo^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴ lo³
  - Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵ lo³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˇ lo^ˊ
  - Sinological IPA: /fu¹¹ lo²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hu⁵ lor³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hū-lô̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu¹¹ lɒ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hu⁵ lor³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu²¹ lɒ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hū-ló
  - Tâi-lô: hū-ló
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huxloir
  - IPA (Taipei): /hu³³⁻¹¹ lo⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hu²²⁻²¹ lo⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu³³⁻²¹ lɤ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǔ-nó͘
  - Tâi-lô: hǔ-nóo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hu²² nɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/

Noun

父老

(honorific) elder (of a country or district)

Derived terms

江東父老 / 江东父老
無顏見江東父老 / 无颜见江东父老 (wúyán jiàn jiāngdōng fùlǎo)
父老鄉親 / 父老乡亲
鄉親父老 / 乡亲父老