老身

老身

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.