老友 Save Sign in to save words lǎoyǒu ㄌㄠˇ ㄧㄡˇ old friend sb who passed the county level imperial exam (in Ming dynasty) 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 友(yǒu)friend Other words read lǎoyǒu laoyou with other tones 牢友 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0