老人 (lǎorén) means Old person. Below are 24 of the 37 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他扶 老人 过马路。
Tā fú lǎorén guò mǎlù.
He helped the old man across the road.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 扶
老人 行动有点慢。
Lǎorén xíngdòng yǒudiǎn màn.
The old man moves a little slowly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 行动
隔壁住着一位 老人 。
Gébì zhù zhe yí wèi lǎorén.
An elderly person lives next door.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 隔壁
他是个仁慈的 老人 。
Tā shì ge réncí de lǎorén.
He is a kind-hearted old man.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 仁慈
迎面走来一位 老人 。
Yíng miàn zǒu lái yí wèi lǎorén.
An old man came walking towards us.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 迎面
老人 常说知足常乐。
Lǎorén cháng shuō zhīzúchánglè.
The old man often says that contentment brings happiness.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 知足常乐
老人 上台阶时很小心。
Lǎorén shàng táijiē shí hěn xiǎoxīn.
The old man is careful going up the steps.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 台阶
他是一位慈祥的 老人 。
Tā shì yí wèi cíxiáng de lǎorén.
He is a kindly old man.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 慈祥
老人 跪下给菩萨上香。
Lǎorén guì xià gěi púsà shàng xiāng.
The old woman knelt to offer incense to the bodhisattva.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 跪
他无意中冒犯了 老人 。
Tā wúyì zhōng màofàn le lǎorén.
He unintentionally offended the old man.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 冒犯
老人 和儿童优先上车。
Lǎorén hé értóng yōuxiān shàng chē.
The elderly and children board first.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 优先
老人 拄着拐杖慢慢走。
Lǎorén zhǔzhe guǎizhàng mànmàn zǒu.
The old man walked slowly leaning on a stick.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拄
这种设计便于 老人 使用。
Zhè zhǒng shèjì biànyú lǎorén shǐyòng.
This design makes it easy for elderly people to use.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 便于
老人 思维依然十分敏捷。
Lǎorén sīwéi yīrán shífēn mǐnjié.
The old man's mind is still very quick.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 敏捷
他母亲是位贤惠的 老人 。
Tā mǔqīn shì wèi xiánhuì de lǎorén.
His mother is a kind and capable old lady.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贤惠
老人 摔倒了,大家去扶他。
Lǎorén shuāidǎo le, dàjiā qù fú tā.
The old man fell and everyone went to help him up.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 摔倒
大家对这位 老人 充满崇敬。
Dàjiā duì zhè wèi lǎorén chōngmǎn chóngjìng.
Everyone holds this old man in deep reverence.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 崇敬
这条街的居民大多是 老人 。
Zhè tiáo jiē de jūmín dàduō shì lǎorén.
Most of the residents on this street are elderly.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 居民
老人 牵着一头牛慢慢走过。
Lǎorén qiānzhe yì tóu niú mànmàn zǒu guò.
The old man walked slowly past leading an ox.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵
看到 老人 ,他连忙站了起来。
Kàn dào lǎorén, tā liánmáng zhàn le qǐlái.
Seeing the old man, he stood up at once.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 连忙
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From the graded readers
我旁边坐着一位 老人 。
wǒ pángbiān zuòzhe yī wèi lǎorén.
An older man was sitting next to me.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · The Train to Shanghai
后来我看见一个 老人 在路口卖红薯。
hòulái wǒ kànjiàn yīgè lǎorén zài lù kǒu mài hóngshǔ.
Then I saw an old man selling sweet potatoes on the corner.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
为了一个字,一位八十三岁的 老人 写了两遍。
wèile yīgè zì, yī wèi bāshí sān suì de / dì lǎorén xiěle liǎng biàn.
For the sake of one character, an eighty-three-year-old had written it out twice.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
老人 appears in 37 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 老人
How is 老人 used in a sentence?
This page shows 37 sentences using 老人 (lǎorén, "Old person"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
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The dictionary page for 老人 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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