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  *旧* | 旧* | *旧
old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
as before; still / to remain the same
HSK 5
still (remaining) / to remain (the same) / yet
HSK 5
to feel nostalgic / nostalgia
HSK 7-9
shabby
HSK 7-9
old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
HSK 7-9
to turn over a new leaf
former custom; old ways
San Francisco, California
outmoded / old-fashioned
old property (esp. inherited from former generation) / former territory
old affection
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
old verse / poetry in the old style
depreciation
worn out / old-fashioned and dilapidated
Old Testament
to revive old dreams (idiom); to relive past experiences
to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
in former times / the olden days
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
former site; old location
as before / as in the past
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
old style
old friend
former times / olden days
old residence / former home
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
archaic
second-hand goods / used items for sale
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
to reminisce / to talk about former times
one's former subordinates
former residence
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
old capital
(idiom) to continue in the same old rut / diehard conservative attitudes
old friends
to restore old way / to return to the past
once familiar places / former haunts
old friendship
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
old habit / former custom
old friend / former acquaintance
old capital
to reminisce
old friends
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
old rules / example from the past / former practices
old acquaintance / former friend
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
usher out the old, greet the new / esp. to see in the New Year
former appearance / what it used to look like
old illness / former affliction
old friend / former acquaintance
outmoded / decadent / decaying
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
old teachings; wisdom from the past
poetry in the old style
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
conservative / reactionary
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
old version
former name
to give (sth) an antique look; to artificially age; to distress
relatives and old friends
old term / old way of referring to sth
to replace the old with new (idiom)
notable former families
scenes of the past reappear; evocation of the past
place one has previously visited / old haunts
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
old school / conservative faction
Gejiu, a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture 紅河哈尼族彝族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan
Paleolithic Era
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
old traces / signs from the past
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
rate of deprecation
the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆 or the Americas
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
former times / the olden days
lunar New Year
old illness / former affliction
second-hand car market / used bike market
old form of writing / piece in the old style

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