Radical 125

Radical 125 or radical old (老部) meaning "old" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

老
Radical 125 (U+2F7C)
老 (U+8001) "old"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	lǎo
Bopomofo:	ㄌㄠˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	lao
Wade–Giles:	lao3
Cantonese Yale:	lóuh
Jyutping:	lou5
Japanese Kana:	ロウ rou (on'yomi) おいる oiru ふける fukeru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	로 ro
Names
Chinese name(s):	老字頭/老字头 lǎozìtóu
Japanese name(s):	老/おい oi
Hangul:	늙을 neulgeul
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 22 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

老 is also the 123rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 耂 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
−2	耂
+0	老 考
+4	耄 者 耆
+5	耇 耈 (=耇) 耉 (=耇)
+6	耊 (=耋) 耋

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a fourth grade kanji

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8001