The two kings above, the eight characters below, what are you looking at?

Is the landlord's description wrong? There is no word "two kings above and eight below" in more than 70 thousand Chinese characters in China, Japan and Korea. It should be this word: old.

Liao: pronounced as qín, which is homophonic with the ancient "Qin".

See:/ZD/zi/zdice7zdic8fzdica1.htm.