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  *舊* | 舊* | *舊
old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
old residence / former home
former site; old location
old habit / former custom
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
old acquaintance / former friend
old calendar / out-of-date customs
scenes of the past reappear; evocation of the past
Paleolithic Era
old property (esp. inherited from former generation) / former territory
poetry in the old style
old affair / former matter
former times / olden days
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
San Francisco, California
notable former families
old version
old dreams
old and damaged / in disrepair
former name
the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆 or the Americas
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
old friend / former acquaintance
old friends
old form of writing / piece in the old style
old affection
old illness / former affliction
old look / former appearance
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
place one has previously visited / old haunts
former residence
old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
former appearance / what it used to look like
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
former custom; old ways
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
old friendship
old friend / former acquaintance
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
old teachings; wisdom from the past
old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff
old system / weights and measures of former times
old style
old posture / former situation
former times / the olden days
old term / old way of referring to sth
Old Testament
in the past / formerly
old capital
old grievance / former complaint
kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
old traces / signs from the past
old illness / former affliction
former acquaintance / old friend
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm
one's former subordinates
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
old verse / poetry in the old style
old rules / example from the past / former practices
once familiar places / former haunts
in former times / the olden days
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
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
lunar New Year
second-hand car market / used bike market
old friend
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 capital
(idiom) to return to a place after a long time away
ex; former lover
old school / conservative faction
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
old system / former rules
second-hand goods / used items for sale
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff


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