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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
HSK 7-9
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
classical
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
surname Gu
since ancient times / since times immemorial
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
Tomb Raider (computer game)
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
Old Chinese (linguistics)
classical music
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
ancient text / antique books
since the dawn of time / from the year dot
old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond
places of historic interest / historical sites / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
Pangea or Pangaea
Pleiku, Vietnam
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, capital Hohhot 呼和浩特市 (abbr. to )
Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
curio / antique
HSK 7-9
the Koran
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
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
(loanword) cologne
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗
ancient capital
guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times)
at all times and in all places (idiom)
HSK 7-9
ancient civilization
gangster / hooligan / problem youth / at-risk youth
(idiom) unprecedented / unheard of
HSK 7-9
Fenghuang Ancient Town, in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan, added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2008 in the Cultural category
(idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times
to revere the past and despise the present (idiom)
archaeology
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 / aka 光復會|光复会
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
then and now / ancient and modern
ancient history
ancient city
costume drama
ancient castle
neoclassical
old tomb (archaeology)
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)
classical literature
to recall the past / to cherish the memory of past events / to reminisce / nostalgic
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
classical music (mainly Western)
ancient Greece
simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)
HSK 7-9
palaeontology
to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
Cuba
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
HSK 7-9
Gucci (brand)
antiquity
ancient language / old expression
(since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial
antique / curio
(idiom) mischievously clever; whimsically quirky
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous
from ancient times up to now / throughout history
Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
(literary) ancient times / in olden days
Ancient Greek (language)
there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless
Gulin county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan
ancient country
ancient proverb / old saying
(loanword) nicotine
former residence
Lijiang old town (in Yunnan)
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
archaeology / to engage in archaeological studies
for all eternity (idiom)
near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
in ancient times / in olden days
classicists
interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
pseudo-classical / modeled on antique / in the old style
Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Outer Mongolia
Old Towpath along the Grand Canal in Zhejiang Province
ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line
never before in the whole of history (idiom) / unprecedented
yurt
Guggenheim (name)
Nagoya, city in Japan

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