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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huángfà'érchǐ, huángfǎ'érchǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˋ ㄦˊ ㄔˇ, ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄦˊ ㄔˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángfà'érchǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˋ ㄦˊ ㄔˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángfà-érchǐh
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-fa⁴-êrh²-chʻih³
    • Yale: hwáng-fà-ér-chř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangfaherlchyy
    • Palladius: хуанфаэрчи (xuanfaerči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ fä⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huángfǎ'érchǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄦˊ ㄔˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huángfǎ-érchǐh
    • Wade–Giles: huang²-fa³-êrh²-chʻih³
    • Yale: hwáng-fǎ-ér-chř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwangfaaerlchyy
    • Palladius: хуанфаэрчи (xuanfaerči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Idiom

黃髮兒齒

1. (literary) to be old and long-lived

   • 宜大夫庶士、邦國是有。既多受祉、黃髮兒齒。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     宜大夫庶士、邦国是有。既多受祉、黄发儿齿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th 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.

Related terms

• 黃髮鮐背／黄发鲐背 (huángfàtáibèi)