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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
curio / antique
HSK 7-9
simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)
HSK 7-9
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
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
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
unique / unprecedented (idiom)
then and now / ancient and modern
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)
Mongolia
Syracuse, Sicily / also written 錫拉庫薩|锡拉库萨
antique ink slab / CL:
Ergun, county-level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
ancient country
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
ancient capital
Cuba
Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
antique
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
ancient city
variant of 稀奇古怪
classical literature
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
historical sites and scenic spots
Nicosia, capital of Cyprus (Tw)
immemorial
throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present)
to borrow the past as a model for the present
antiquity / ancient times
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
surname Gu
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
chocolate (loanword) / CL: 塊|块
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
ancient Babylon
antiquity
(idiom) calm and collected; unaffected by external influences
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
ancient text / antique books
antique / curio
questions from previous years' exams (Tw)
Mongolian (language)
classical music
Kuching (city in Malaysia)
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
archaeology
in ancient times / in olden days
Nagoya, city in Japan
ancient castle
the Koran
since ancient times
a good reputation to last down the generations
guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times)
coca plant (source of cocaine)
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
sb condemned by history (idiom)
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, capital Hohhot 呼和浩特市 (abbr. to )
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
archaeologist
since ancient times / since times immemorial
Augusta (place name: capital of Maine, city in Georgia etc)
ancient history
paleo-organism
to recall the past / to cherish the memory of past events / to reminisce / nostalgic
Gucci (brand)
archaic
(loanword) nicotine
following the ways of old / in imitation of ancient style
(Tw) (loanword) decoupage
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
lit. to astonish the ancients and dazzle contemporaries (idiom) / fig. to be earthshaking
ancient history
Guggenheim (name)
overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square
ancient book / old book
Outer Mongolia
in former times / in olden days
(loanword) cocaine
Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer
Gu county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
Gulin county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan
Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
ancient Greece
paleography
to revere the past and despise the present (idiom)
Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江

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