lǎo​jǐ

seniority rank

  • created sense approved 老几/老幾 · lǎo​jǐ · seniority rank — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    老几 / 老幾

    lǎo​jǐ

    seniority rank

    An inquiry about the order of seniority among siblings; used to ask which child a person is in a family

    老 (literal) → 老 · lǎo · [ordinal prefix] 几 (literal) → 几/幾 · jǐ · how many

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 老几/老幾 · lǎo​jǐ · [disparagement] — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    老几 / 老幾

    lǎo​jǐ

    [disparagement]

    Used in rhetorical questions to suggest that someone is a nobody or lacks the status, experience, or authority to act in a certain way

    老 (literal) → 老 · lǎo · [ordinal prefix] 几 (literal) → 几/幾 · jǐ · how many

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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