旧

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old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age)

5 strokes Dict coverage rank #609 U+65E7

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Older than 丨 the sun 日

components: 丨日

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