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  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
classical
HSK 6
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
HSK 7-9
curio / antique
HSK 7-9
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
HSK 7-9
simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)
HSK 7-9
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unprecedented / unheard of
HSK 7-9
at all times and in all places (idiom)
HSK 7-9
places of historic interest / historical sites / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
ancient book / old book
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
to die / to pass away
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
ancient text / antique books
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
Cuba
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
Inner Mongolia (abbr. for 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区)
ancient capital
Gutian county in Ningde 寧德|宁德, Fujian
Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Kuching (city in Malaysia)
antiquity / ancient times
Inner Mongolia autonomous region, abbr. 內蒙古|内蒙古, capital Hohhot 呼和浩特市
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
crazy / bizarre / weird / fantastic / strange
following the ways of old / in imitation of ancient style
questions from previous years' exams (Tw)
classical literature
classical music
Augustus (name)
ancient castle
(Tw) old times / former times
paleo-organism
Gujiao, county-level city in Taiyuan 太原, Shanxi
ancient history
to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
chocolate (loanword) / CL: 塊|块
immemorial
overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square
in ancient times / in olden days
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
surname Gu
throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present)
since ancient times; it has ever been the case that
Mongolia
ancient Greece
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
then and now / ancient and modern
ancient city
Gu county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
nicotine (loanword)
neoclassicism
ancient road / precepts of the antiquity
Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang
ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character
Honggu District of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市, Gansu
antique / curio
antiquity
paleography
Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer
since ancient times
archaeology
Mongolian language
old coin
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗
the Koran
Ergun, county-level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
crazy / bizarre / weird / fantastic / strange
archaeology
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds
guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times)
since ancient times / since times immemorial
Augusta (place name: capital of Maine, city in Georgia etc)
archaeologist
(loanword) cocaine
ancient country
(since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
Outer Mongolia
palaeontology
Gucci (brand)
to recall the past / to cherish the memory of past events / to reminisce / nostalgic
archaic
Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia
Guye district of Tangshan city 唐山市, Hebei
old Buddhist temple
Sino-Cuban / China-Cuba
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
historical sites and scenic spots
lit. to astonish the ancients and dazzle contemporaries (idiom) / fig. to be earthshaking
to search for ancient relics
to visit historic sites

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