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


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