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Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
deliberately; on purpose
HSK 2
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
narrative; story; tale
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
malfunction / breakdown / defect / shortcoming / fault / failure / impediment / error / bug (in software)
HSK 6
therefore
old teaching (e.g. religious instruction)
Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing / National Palace Museum, Taipei
former acquaintance / old friend
old site / site of sth (palace, ancient state etc) that no longer exists
native country; one's homeland
to put on an act
usual trick / old tactics
old classics / old customs / cause
stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative
old practice
old friend / the deceased
fault resolution / trouble clearing
old friends
artificial show of seriousness / to pretend to be solemn
that's why it is called...
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
former residence
a close friend over many years
home town; native place
former capital / ancient capital
fictional film / feature film
storyline; plotline
once familiar places / former haunts
old tomb
the Forbidden City / abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院
former imperial palace
descended from an old family
... hence the name (used at the end of a sentence)
to die / death
do not neglect old friends
one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been
old and respected family / family whose members have been officials from generation to generation
to play the profound thinker
Gucheng, a county in Hengshui City 衡水市, Hebei
deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated
old friend / deceased friend
therefore
premeditated murder
a pile of old books
to revert to old ways
old road / old way / old course (of a river)
to die / to pass away
country with an ancient history
former home
to pretend / to feign
rut (made by vehicles) / (fig.) conventional ways
former residence
(literary) former subordinate
old city
historical ruins
old estate / former empire / former occupation
one's hometown


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