老驥伏櫪

1. • lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom) fig. aged person with great aspirations

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
• 驥(jì)thoroughbred horse
• 伏(fú)surname Fu
• 櫪(lì)type of oak