老調重彈 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 老调重弹 lǎodiàochóngtán ㄌㄠˇ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄊㄢˊ to play the same old tune (idiom) unoriginal 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 調(diào)transfer 重(chóng)repeat 彈(tán)pluck A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0