留守老人

liúshǒu lǎorén
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 elderly people left behind in rural villages when adult children migrate to cities for work

Examples

HSK 4
Hěnduō nóngcūn de liúshǒu lǎorén dúzì shēnghuó.
Many left-behind elderly in the countryside live alone.
HSK 4
Guònián shí zǐnǚ huíjiā kànwàng liúshǒu lǎorén.
Children return home during Chinese New Year to visit the elderly left behind.
HSK 6
Zhèngfǔ zhèngzài guānzhù liúshǒu lǎorén de yǎnglǎo wèntí.
The government is paying attention to the elderly-care problem of left-behind seniors.

Tips

culture
Counterpart to 留守儿童 (left-behind children). Both terms describe the social cost of mass rural-to-urban migration since the 1990s, with elderly parents and young children remaining in the village while working-age adults labor in coastal cities.

Stroke Order

liú
shǒu
lǎo
rén