老底子

Chinese

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	bottom; underneath; underside bottom; underneath; underside; base; foundation
trad. (老底子)		老	底子
simp. #(老底子)		老	底子
alternative forms		老底仔 Wu

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎodǐzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˇ ㄉㄧˇ ˙ㄗ

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶lau-ti-tsy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎodǐzi [Phonetic: láodǐzi]
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄉㄧˇ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎodǐzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: lao³-ti³-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: lǎu-dǐ-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laodii.tzy
    • Palladius: лаодицзы (laodiczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ti²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶lau-ti-tsy
    • MiniDict: lau^去 ti tsy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lau-ti-tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lɔ²² ti⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/

Noun

老底子

1. inherited fortune; ancestral estate; foundation; base

   • 好好地利用和發展沿海的工業老底子，可以使我們更有力量來發展和支持內地工業。 [MSC, trad.]
     好好地利用和发展沿海的工业老底子，可以使我们更有力量来发展和支持内地工业。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1956, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論十大關係》 (On the Ten Major Relationships), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Hǎohǎo de lìyòng hé fāzhǎn yánhǎi de gōngyè lǎodǐzi, kěyǐ shǐ wǒmen gèng yǒu lìliàng lái fāzhǎn hé zhīchí nèidì gōngyè. [Pinyin]

     Making good use of the old industries in the coastal regions and developing their capacities will put us in a stronger position to promote and support industry in the interior.

2. original personnel
3. one's (unsavory) past; one's personal background
4. (dialectal) the past; past time

Synonyms

• (foundation, base): 老底 (lǎodǐ), 根底 (gēndǐ)
• (original personnel): 老班底
• (one's unsavory past): 老底 (lǎodǐ), 內情／内情 (nèiqíng), 底細／底细 (dǐxì)