黃髮兒齒
Chinese
old person; the old; the elderly new tooth of an elderly person that grows back trad. (黃髮兒齒) 黃髮 兒齒 simp. (黄发儿齿) 黄发 儿齿
Pronunciation
Idiom
黃髮兒齒
- (literary) to be old and long-lived
- 宜大夫庶士、邦國是有。既多受祉、黃髮兒齒。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yí dàfū shù shì, bāngguó shì yǒu. Jì duō shòu zhǐ, huángfà'érchǐ. [Pinyin]
- With his excellent ministers and all his [other] officers.
Our region and State shall he hold,
Thus receiving many blessings,
To hoary hair, and with teeth ever renewed like a child's.
宜大夫庶士、邦国是有。既多受祉、黄发儿齿。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Related terms
- 黃髮鮐背/黄发鲐背 (huángfàtáibèi)