老汉
lǎo hàn · HSK 7
old man
👴 老汉 = 老 old + 汉 man/fellow (汉 = a Han guy, a bloke)
老 means old; 汉 originally meant a Han-Chinese person and broadened to mean a grown man or fellow. Together they read as old fellow. The self-reference sense is an old man humbly calling himself old 汉.
老 — old man 耂 + 匕 (bent figure)
Originally a pictograph of an elderly person with long hair leaning on a cane. The top 耂 depicts the hair and stooped body, while 匕 at the bottom represents the cane or a bent figure. The core meaning 'old' has remained stable since oracle bone script.