老家

Chinese

	old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
trad. (老家)	老	家
simp. ^#(老家)	老	家
anagram	家老

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lǎojiā

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lou⁵ gaa¹
Gan (Wiktionary): 'lau³ ga¹
Jin (Wiktionary): lau² jia¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): láu-ke / láu-kee / láu-ka

(Teochew, Peng'im): lao⁶ gê¹

Note: lǎojiār - “one's elders, especially one's parents”.

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lou⁵ gaa¹
  - Yale: lóuh gā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ gaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ ga¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ kaː⁵⁵/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: 'lau³ ga¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈlau²¹³⁻¹³ ka⁴²/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: lau² jia¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /lau⁵³ t͡ɕia¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-ke
  - Tâi-lô: láu-ke
  - Phofsit Daibuun: law'kef
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ke³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ke⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-kee
  - Tâi-lô: láu-kee
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kɛ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-ka
  - Tâi-lô: láu-ka
  - Phofsit Daibuun: law'kaf
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ka³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ka⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lao⁶ gê¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lău ke
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau³⁵⁻¹¹ ke³³/

老家

one's original or family home; one's native place; one's place of origin
one's ancestral hometown
(figuratively, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) the other side; heaven or hell; afterworld; netherworld
(dialectal, often erhua-ed) one's elders, especially one's parents

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