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| | ancient times | HSK 3 |
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| | ancient / old / age-old | HSK 5 |
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| | classical | HSK 6 |
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| | people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) unprecedented / unheard of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | places of historic interest / historical sites / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | at all times and in all places (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | curio / antique | HSK 7-9 |
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| | strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre | HSK 7-9 |
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| | remain fresh / last forever / eternal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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) | |
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| | archaeology | |
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| | surname Gu | |
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| | old verse / Classical Chinese poem | |
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| | (since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial | |
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| | Mongolia | |
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| | pseudo-classical / modeled on antique / in the old style | |
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| | ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc) | |
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| | ancient text / antique books | |
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| | ancient city | |
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| | the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times | |
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| | then and now / ancient and modern | |
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| | Cuba | |
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| | Gutian county in Ningde 寧德|宁德, Fujian | |
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| | ancient capital | |
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| | archaic | |
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| | Gulang county in Wuwei 武威, Gansu | |
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| | old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗 | |
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| | Guzhang County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州 | |
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| | antiquity / ancient times | |
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| | Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter | |
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| | guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times) | |
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| | for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead) | |
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| | outmoded / old-fashioned / inflexible | |
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| | immemorial | |
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| | old tomb (archaeology) | |
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| | antiquity | |
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| | Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原 | |
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| | (literary) ancient times / in olden days | |
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| | ancient road / precepts of the antiquity | |
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| | since the dawn of time / from the year dot | |
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| | chocolate (loanword) / CL: 塊|块 | |
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| | since ancient times / since times immemorial | |
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| | to recall the past / to cherish the memory of past events / to reminisce / nostalgic | |
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| | historical sites and scenic spots | |
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| | ancient language / old expression | |
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| | lit. to astonish the ancients and dazzle contemporaries (idiom) / fig. to be earthshaking | |
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| | ancient country | |
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| | ancient castle | |
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| | to talk of the past and discuss the present (idiom) / to chat freely / to discuss everything | |
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| | antique / curio | |
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| | Guta district of Jinzhou city 錦州市|锦州市, Liaoning | |
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| | Gulin county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan | |
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| | Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar | |
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| | ancient prescription | |
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| | Gujiao, county-level city in Taiyuan 太原, Shanxi | |
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| | throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present) | |
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| | Augusta (place name: capital of Maine, city in Georgia etc) | |
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| | ancient book / old book | |
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| | Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash | |
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| | ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character | |
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| | Subei Mongol autonomous county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | |
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| | crazy / bizarre / weird / fantastic / strange | |
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| | unprecedented / never seen since ancient times | |
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| | Ergun, county-level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | (botany) coca (source of cocaine) | |
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| | Honggu District of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市, Gansu | |
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| | conversant with things past and present / erudite and informed | |
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| | Guye district of Tangshan city 唐山市, Hebei | |
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| | Gu county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi | |
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| | (idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times | |
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| | antique | |
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| | old adage; ancient teaching | |
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| | ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds | |
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| | near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times) | |
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| | to die / to pass away | |
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| | to search for ancient relics | |
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| | sb condemned by history (idiom) | |
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| | old coin | |
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| | Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology) | |
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| | to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom) | |
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| | Augustus (name) | |
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| | Gujarat, state in west India | |
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| | old Buddhist temple | |
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| | Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso | |
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| | Tungus | |
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| | to emulate a classic / to work in the style of a classic (author) | |
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| | Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras | |
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| | over seventy years old | |
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| | the Koran | |
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| | quaint / odd and picturesque / weird and wonderful | |
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| | to use the past to disparage the present (idiom) | |
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| | Maiduguri, city in north Nigeria | |
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| | Ingushetia, republic in southwestern Russia | |
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| | for all eternity (idiom) | |
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| | conservative and unable to adapt (idiom) | |
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| | to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) / to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject | |
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