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衰老

shuāi lǎo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

衰老 (shuāi lǎo) means "to age; to grow old". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 衰老 means

1. to age
2. to deteriorate with age
3. old and weak

The characters in 衰老

• 衰shuāi(bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…

Example sentences

• 没有人能逃过衰老。
  Méiyǒu rén néng táo guo shuāilǎo.
  No one can escape growing old.
• 衰老不得，智慧不得不得。
  Don't get older, get wiser.

Where 衰老 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuāi lǎo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.