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Kanji Detail for 耄 - "senile, elder, doddering"

  • Meaning

    耄 means "senile, elder, doddering."

    1. Senile - To grow old and feeble.

    2. Elder - An old person of eighty or ninety years.

    3. Doddering - To become senile.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    senility

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    elderly person; very old, senile

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s); octogenarian; nonagenarian

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    selderly person; old, senile

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Those eighty or ninety years old are called 耄. Seen in (Record of Rites, Summary of Ceremonies).
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