老身

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	body; torso; person body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
trad. (老身)		老	身
simp. #(老身)		老	身

Etymology

First attested in Beishi:

老身二十年侍中，與卿先君亟連職事，縱卿後進，何宜相排突也！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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老身二十年侍中，与卿先君亟连职事，纵卿后进，何宜相排突也！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: c. 659 CE, Li Yanshou, History of the Northern Dynasties

Lǎoshēn èrshí nián shìzhōng, yǔ qīng xiānjūn jí lián zhíshì, zòng qīng hòujìn, hé yí xiàng páitū yě! [Pinyin]

I was a shizhong for twenty years, being your father's colleague. Although you came into duty later [than me], how come you exclude me?!

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎoshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎoshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎoshen
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-shên¹
    • Yale: lǎu-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laoshen
    • Palladius: лаошэнь (laošɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lou⁵ san¹
    • Yale: lóuh sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ sɐn⁵⁵/

Pronoun

老身

1. (literary, humble, chiefly women's speech) I; me (used by an elderly woman)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
老	身
ろう Grade: 4	しん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞ːɕĩɴ]

Noun

老(ろう)身(しん) • (rōshin) 

1. (one’s own) old body; old age

   青(せい)春(しゅん)は過(す)ぎて老(ろう)身(しん)が残(のこ)る。

   Seishun wa sugite rōshin ga nokoru.

   Youth has passed and these old bones remain.

   • 2015 April 26, “Hibakusha nanajū nen: mienu ‘kaku naki seikai’ [Atomic bombing survivors 70 years on: won't see ‘a world without weapons’]”, in Mainichi Shimbun, page 9:

     被(ひ)爆(ばく )７０(ななじゅう)年(ねん)の年(とし)に開(ひら)かれるＮＰＴ再( さい)検(けん)討(とう)会(かい)議(ぎ)に合(あ)わせ、被(ひ)爆(ばく)者(しゃ)たちが老(ろう)身(しん)を押(お)してニューヨークに向(む)かい、かの地(ち)で証(しょう)言(げん)する。

     Hibaku nanajū-nen no toshi ni hirakareru ＮＰＴ saikentō kaigi ni awase, hibakusha-tachi ga rōshin o oshite Nyū Yōku ni mukai, kano chi de shōgen suru.

     Convened seventy years after the bombings, this conference to reappraise the non-proliferation treaty requires atomic bomb survivors to push their old bodies to New York to give testimony there.