老生常谈 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 老生常談 lǎoshēngchángtán ㄌㄠˇ ㄕㄥ ㄔㄤˊ ㄊㄢˊ an old observation (idiom) a truism banal comments 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 生(shēng)grow 常(cháng)surname Chang 谈(tán)surname Tan A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0