偕老 xiélǎo
xiélǎo
set phrase
to grow old together
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Of husband and wife (CC-CEDICT '偕老'; Guoyu '偕老'; Mathews 1931 '偕老', p. 83)
Contained in
- 期颐偕老(期頤偕老) live to a hundred years and grow old together
- 白头偕老(白頭偕老) (to live together until the) white hairs of old age; to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part
- 百年偕老 live to a hundred years and grow old together
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 國風‧鄘‧君子偕老 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Jun Zi Xie Lao The Book of Songs 詩經 — count: 5
- 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang The Book of Songs 詩經 — count: 3
- 卷二十 Scroll 20 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷十四 Scroll 14 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷47 列傳第39 藝術 Volume 47 Biographies 39: Artists Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 1
- 卷三十二 列傳第二十: 崔鑒 崔辯 崔挺 Volume 32 Biographies 20: Cui Jian, Cui Bian, Cui Ting History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
- 卷五十一 列傳第四十五 處士 Volume 51: Retired Gentlemen Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 1
- 卷九十 列傳第七十八: 藝術下 Volume 90 Biographies 78: Diviners 2 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 君子偕老 (君子偕老) 君子偕老 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧君子偕老 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Jun Zi Xie Lao — count: 7
- 子偕老 (子偕老) 與子偕老 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧擊鼓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Ji Gu — count: 4