IDENTITY
翁wēngold man
HSK 4Top 1350
CORE MEANING
old man
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.old manHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 羽feather radical (yǔ)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱公羽
- gives the sound wēng
- feathers; white hair
USAGE
Common words
老翁lǎowēngold man
富翁fùwēngrich man
Graded examples
塞翁失马，焉知非福。Sàiwēng shī mǎ, yān zhī fēi fú.HSK6
The old man lost his horse — who knows if it’s not a blessing?
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A public elder (公) with feather-white hair (羽) — an old man.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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