| 男女老少 |
nán nǚ lǎo shào |
men, women, young and old; all kinds of people; people of all ages |
| 男 |
nán |
(bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位 |
| 男女 |
nán nǚ |
male-female / male and female |
| 女 |
nǚ |
female / woman / daughter |
| 女 |
rǔ |
old variant of 汝 |
| 老 |
lǎo |
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough |
| 老少 |
lǎo shào |
the old and the young |
| 少 |
shǎo |
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom |
| 少 |
shào |
young |