老者

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	‑ist, ‑er (person); person (who does something)
trad. (老者)		老	者
simp. ^#(老者)		老	者

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǎozhě [Phonetic: láozhě]
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄓㄜˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǎojhě
  - Wade–Giles: lao³-chê³
  - Yale: lǎu-jě
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laojee
  - Palladius: лаочжэ (laočžɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lou⁵ ze²
  - Yale: lóuh jé
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ dze²
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ zé²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ t͡sɛː³⁵/
Xiang
- (Hengyang)
  - Wiktionary: lau³ jie³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯³³ t͡ɕi̯e̞³³/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	老	者
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǎo	zhě
Middle Chinese	‹ law^X ›	‹ tsyæ^X ›
Old Chinese	/*C.rˁuʔ/	/*tAʔ/
English	old	(nominalizing particle)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

老者

Sino-Xenic (老者):

Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

老(ろう)者(しゃ) • (rōsha) ^{←らうしゃ (rausya)^?}

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN