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旧
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Definitions
- 1. opposite: new 新
- 2. former
- 3. worn (with age)
Words Containing 旧
former custom
the Chinese lunar calendar
out-of-date customs
lunar New Year
everything as before
still (remaining)
to turn over a new leaf
former affliction
former territory
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[èr shí sì shǐ], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[xuē jū zhèng] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[běi sòng], 150 scrolls
worn out
former name
as before
kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
past grievance
former residence
former acquaintance
former home
to return to the past
in disrepair
former complaint
diehard conservative attitudes
to reminisce
example from the past
to reminisce
signs from the past
former times
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[èr shí sì shǐ], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[liú xù] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[hòu jìn] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
former appearance
trade of one's forebears
former acquaintance
see 懷舊|怀旧[huái jiù]
outmoded
Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
notable former families
to make friends again
shabby
once familiar places
depreciation
to follow a proven formula
feeling of nostalgia
conservative
rate of deprecation
Gejiu, county-level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州[hóng hé hā ní zú yí zú zì zhì zhōu]
former situation
outmoded
as before
one's former subordinates
last year
former matter
dwelling on the past
San Francisco, California
to hark back
second-hand car market
(loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
former affliction
old-fashioned
to revisit
sale of second-hand goods
Gejiu, county-level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州[hóng hé hā ní zú yí zú zì zhì zhōu]
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
former times
second-hand goods
weights and measures of former times
conservative faction
former agreement
in the past
outdated news
place one has previously visited
former rules
second-hand book
to feel nostalgic
former friend
in former times
see 故態復萌|故态复萌[gù tài fù méng]
Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆[xīn dà lù] or the Americas
former appearance
esp. to see in the New Year
fig. conservative opinion
long-standing legal dispute
evocation of the past
Paleolithic Era
archaic
former acquaintance