黃髮

Chinese

		yellow	hair
trad. (黃髮)		黃	髮
simp. (黄发)		黄	发

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huángfà, huángfǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˋ, ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángfà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángfà
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-fa⁴
    • Yale: hwáng-fà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangfah
    • Palladius: хуанфа (xuanfa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ fä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángfǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángfǎ
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-fa³
    • Yale: hwáng-fǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangfaa
    • Palladius: хуанфа (xuanfa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

黃髮

1. (literary) old person; the old; the elderly

Synonyms

• 家先生 (Hakka, polite, term of address)
• 老人 (lǎorén)
• 老人家 (polite, term of address)
• 老大人 (Hokkien, polite, term of address)
• 老年人 (lǎoniánrén)
• 老者 (lǎozhě) (literary)

 

Derived terms

• 黃髮兒齒／黄发儿齿 (huángfà'érchǐ)
• 黃髮鮐背／黄发鲐背 (huángfàtáibèi)