老幺

lǎoyāo

noun #58,014

Meanings

HSK 2

我是家里的老幺，上面有两个哥哥。

Wǒ shì jiālǐ de lǎoyāo, shàngmian yǒu liǎng ge gēge.

I'm the youngest in my family; I have two older brothers.

HSK 7-9

老幺从小被全家宠着，什么家务都不用做。

Lǎoyāo cóngxiǎo bèi quánjiā chǒng zhe, shénme jiāwù dōu búyòng zuò.

The youngest has been spoiled by the whole family since childhood and never has to do any housework.

usage

Siblings are ranked 老大, 老二, 老三 and so on, and the last-born is 老幺. In Sichuan and Chongqing a youngest son is also a 幺儿 and a youngest daughter a 幺妹.

memory

幺 means "smallest", which is also why it is the spoken digit 1 in phone and room numbers: 110 is read yāo yāo líng.

老 lǎo

幺 yāo