sǒu
Pinyin

Definition

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sǒu
  1. old gentleman
  2. old man

Character Decomposition

Compounds (15)

sōu
  1. 1 classifier for ships
  2. 2 Taiwan pr. [sāo]
sōu
  1. 1 to search
shòu
  1. 1 thin
  2. 2 to lose weight
  3. 3 (of clothing) tight
  4. 4 (of meat) lean
  5. 5 (of land) unproductive
sǎo
  1. 1 older brother's wife
  2. 2 sister-in-law
sōu
  1. 1 (onom.) whooshing
  2. 2 swishing
  3. 3 rustle of skirts

Related Words (3)

tóng sǒu wú qī
  1. 1 cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously
  2. 2 Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
Qiáo sǒu
  1. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kǎn tè bó léi Gù shì Jí]
lǎo sǒu
  1. 1 old man

Idioms (2)

北叟失马
běi sǒu shī mǎ
  1. 1 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a blessing in disguise
  3. 3 it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
童叟无欺
tóng sǒu wú qī
  1. 1 cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously
  2. 2 Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.