古
ancient; old; paleo-
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #206 U+53E4
How 古 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Words passing through ten 十 mouths 口
How to remember it
ancient · Heisig RSH #16
十 ten + 口 mouth — as a component also called: ancient
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 古 as their sound component
These characters all use 古 (gǔ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound component | gǔ | old, classic, ancient |
| 苦 | kǔ | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| 胡 | hú | recklessly, foolishly; wildly |
| 居 | jū | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit |
| 故 | gù | reason, cause; happening, instance |
| 固 | gù | to solidify; strength |
| 估 | gū | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume |
| 咕 | gū | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble |
| 鸪 | gū | species of Taiwan pigeon |
| 沽 | gū | to buy and sell; of inferior quality |
| 蛄 | gū | mole cricket |
| 辜 | gū | crime, offense, sin |
| 祜 | hù | blessings, happiness, prosperity |
| 怙 | hù | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) |
| 钴 | gǔ | cobalt; clothes-iron |
| 罟 | gǔ | net, snare; to implicate |
| 诂 | gǔ | explanation; to comment, to explain |
| 骷 | kū | skeleton |
| 嘏 | gǔ | felicity, prosperity; large and strong |
Words containing 古
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人心不古 | rén xīn bù gǔ | (idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times |
| 古生物学家 | gǔ shēng wù xué jiā | paleontologist; paleobiologist |
| 古生物学 | gǔ shēng wù xué | palaeontology |
| 特古西加尔巴 | Tè gǔ xī jiā ěr bā | Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras |
| 古生物 | gǔ shēng wù | organism from the geological past |
| 前无古人 | qián wú gǔ rén | (idiom) unprecedented; unheard of |
| 前无古人，后无来者 | qián wú gǔ rén , hòu wú lái zhě | there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom); never done before… |
| 古城区 | Gǔ chéng Qū | Gucheng, a district of Lijiang City 麗江市|丽江市[Li4 jiang1 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 德古拉 | Dé gǔ lā | Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker; Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad t… |
| 红古区 | Hóng gǔ Qū | Honggu, a district of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市[Lan2 zhou1 Shi4], Gansu |
| 古文字学 | gǔ wén zì xué | paleography |
| 古人 | gǔ rén | people of ancient times; the ancients; extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo … |
| 利古里亚 | Lì gǔ lǐ yà | Liguria, northwest Italy |
| 古县 | Gǔ Xiàn | Gu County or Guxian, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 通古斯 | Tōng gǔ sī | Tungus |
| 德古西加巴 | Dé gǔ xī jiā bā | Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras (Tw) |
| 古国 | gǔ guó | ancient country |
| 中古 | Zhōng Gǔ | Sino-Cuban; China-Cuba |
| 中古 | zhōng gǔ | medieval; Middle Ages; Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and T… |
| 古罗马 | gǔ Luó mǎ | ancient Rome |