衰 老

shuāilǎo

adjectiveHSK 7-9

“To age” in Chinese is 衰老 (shuāilǎo).

Meaning

to age
to deteriorate with age
old and weak

Example

没有人能逃过衰老。

No one can escape growing old.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

shuāiHSK 7-910 strokesto decay; to decline; to wane lǎoHSK 16 strokesprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity

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