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Kanji Detail for 翁 - "old man, elder, venerable"
翁
- Meaning
翁 means "old man, elder, venerable."
Old man - An elderly male.
Venerable elder - A respected aged person.
Father-in-law - The father of one's spouse.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
venerable old man
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
old man; father, father-in-law
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Weng
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
old man; father, father-in-law
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To call someone's father 翁. Such as addressing another's father as 尊翁 (your venerable father). | A term for an old man. Such as 漁翁 (old fisherman), 醉翁 (drunken old man). Also, "The old man at the frontier loses his horse. How does he know it is not a blessing?" From (Huainanzi). | 翁仲. Stone figures placed along the path to tombs. In the time of Wei Mingdi, two bronze figures were cast and placed outside the Sima Gate, called 翁仲. Now stone figures before tombs are called 翁仲 based on this.
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