老家

native place / place of origin / home state or region

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 / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

see 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5]

home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]

(coll.) old fellow / old codger

variant of 老家伙[lao3 jia1 huo5]

to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)

(dialect) sparrow