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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
classical
HSK 6
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
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
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
HSK 7-9
curio / antique
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unprecedented / unheard of
HSK 7-9
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)
HSK 7-9
bronze color
to revisit the past / to commemorate
Guzhang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州
ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character
Mongolia
ancient country
ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
to remain forever new (idiom)
ancient text / antique books
Old town district / Gucheng district of Lijiang city 麗江市|丽江市, Yunnan
(archeology) burial complex
costume drama
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)
Ergun, a county-level city in Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市, Inner Mongolia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
surname Gu
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
(bird species of China) bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus)
ancient capital
then and now / ancient and modern
Nagoya, city in Japan
antiquity
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras (Tw)
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
Ingushetia, republic in southwestern Russia
Guggenheim (name)
to borrow the past as a model for the present
neoclassical
ancient castle
(idiom) calm and collected; unaffected by external influences
old tomb (archaeology)
since the dawn of time / from the year dot
ancient city
archaeology / to engage in archaeological studies
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
Cuba
guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times)
a work in a classic style / a pastiche
(since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial
since ancient times / since times immemorial
(Islam) Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
to learn from the ancients / to study the classic texts
ancient book / old book
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
old coin
Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
ancient prescription
historical sites and scenic spots
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
Guta district of Jinzhou city 錦州市|锦州市, Liaoning
antique
Gulin county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan
old adage; ancient teaching
interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
Gu county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
to talk of the past and discuss the present (idiom) / to chat freely / to discuss everything
to search for ancient relics
Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙, collection of late Ming baihua 白話|白话 tales published in 1620
outmoded / old-fashioned / inflexible
antique / curio
archaic
seventy years old
Augusta (place name: capital of Maine, city in Georgia etc)
Augustus (name)
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, capital Hohhot 呼和浩特市 (abbr. to )
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds
to emulate a classic / to work in the style of a classic (author)
over seventy years old
Gujarat, state in west India
chocolate (loanword) / CL: 塊|块
pseudo-classical / modeled on antique / in the old style
old Buddhist temple
in former times / in olden days
Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
Tungus
(idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times
the ancient Silk Road / see also 絲綢之路|丝绸之路

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