老于世故 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 老於世故 lǎoyúshìgù ㄌㄠˇ ㄩˊ ㄕˋ ㄍㄨˋ experienced in the ways of the world (idiom) worldly-wise sophisticated Character by character 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity 于(yú)surname Yu 世(shì)surname Shi 故(gù)happening A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0