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Kanji Detail for 耄 - "senile, elder, doddering"
耄
- Meaning
耄 means "senile, elder, doddering."
Senile - To grow old and feeble.
Elder - An old person of eighty or ninety years.
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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