Old age refers to a very old person.

Old man (màodié): eighty or ninety years old. 耄, a pictophonetic character, with the upper shape and lower tone, the pronunciation of "Cao". 苋, pronounced "die". An octogenarian refers to a very old person. In ancient times, there were differences in how men and women called their age. Generally speaking, men were called "Shou", while women were not called "Shou" and were generally called "Fu". There is an ancient plaque in Fulexia Caiyuan Village, Luoping, Yunnan, which reads "Qi Yiren Rui", which says that an old woman named Wang in the village once lived to be more than a hundred years old, so she was given this title. Here, "Qi" means expectation and hope, "Yi" means support, and "Qi Yi Renrui" means that because of his old age, he needs and expects his children and grandchildren to support him.