旧
old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age)
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #609 U+65E7
How 旧 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Older than 丨 the sun 日
How to remember it
old · Heisig RSH #37
日 day + walking stick
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 旧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旧中国 | Jiù Zhōng guó | old China (pre-1949 China) |
| 旧车市场 | jiù chē shì chǎng | second-hand car market; used bike market |
| 旧石器时代 | Jiù shí qì Shí dài | Paleolithic Era |
| 旧金山 | Jiù jīn shān | San Francisco, California |
| 旧的不去，新的不来 | jiù de bù qù , xīn de bù lái | lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come.; You can't make progress by clinging to… |
| 旧地重游 | jiù dì chóng yóu | (idiom) to return to a place after a long time away |
| 旧字体 | jiù zì tǐ | kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946 |
| 旧病复发 | jiù bìng fù fā | old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse; fig. to repeat an old error; the same old problem |
| 重提旧事 | chóng tí jiù shì | to raise the same old topic again; to hark back |
| 旧调子 | jiù diào zi | old tune; fig. conservative opinion; the same old stuff |
| 旧时代 | jiù shí dài | former times; the olden days |
| 旧货市场 | jiù huò shì chǎng | sale of second-hand goods; flea market |
| 旧国 | jiù guó | old capital |
| 旧学 | jiù xué | old learning; Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West |
| 旧约全书 | Jiù yuē quán shū | Old Testament |
| 旧地 | jiù dì | once familiar places; former haunts |
| 旧家 | jiù jiā | notable former families |
| 旧民主主义革命 | jiù mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng | old democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the… |
| 一切如旧 | yī qiè rú jiù | everything as before |
| 旧体 | jiù tǐ | old form of writing; piece in the old style |