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  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
ancient / old / age-old
HSK 5
classical
HSK 6
curio / antique
HSK 7-9
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
HSK 7-9
people of ancient times / the ancients / extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis / (literary) deceased person
HSK 7-9
simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)
HSK 7-9
remain fresh / last forever / eternal
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unprecedented / unheard of
HSK 7-9
at all times and in all places (idiom)
HSK 7-9
places of historic interest / historical sites / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
Cuba
ancient capital
Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
classical literature
Augustus (name)
(Tw) old times / former times
ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
chocolate (loanword) / CL: 塊|块
immemorial
in ancient times / in olden days
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *古* | 古* | *古
surname Gu
throughout time / from ancient times (up to the present)
Mongolia
antiquity / ancient times
old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
then and now / ancient and modern
ancient city
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
Eid al-Adha or Festival of the Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month of the Islamic calendar
(idiom) calm and collected; unaffected by external influences
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
ancient text / antique books
antique / curio
questions from previous years' exams (Tw)
Mongolian (language)
classical music
antiquity
archaeology / to engage in archaeological studies
Kuching (city in Malaysia)
archaeology
old coin
Nagoya, city in Japan
ancient castle
the Koran
since ancient times
guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴 during Tang and Song times)
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗
Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, capital Hohhot 呼和浩特市 (abbr. to )
archaeologist
since ancient times / since times immemorial
Augusta (place name: capital of Maine, city in Georgia etc)
ancient country
(since) ancient times / (from) time immemorial
ancient history
Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
paleo-organism
to recall the past / to cherish the memory of past events / to reminisce / nostalgic
Gucci (brand)
archaic
(loanword) nicotine
following the ways of old / in imitation of ancient style
Mongol ethnic group of north China and Inner Mongolia
Sino-Cuban / China-Cuba
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
historical sites and scenic spots
lit. to astonish the ancients and dazzle contemporaries (idiom) / fig. to be earthshaking
neoclassicism
ancient history
Guggenheim (name)
overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square
ancient book / old book
Outer Mongolia
in former times / in olden days
(loanword) cocaine
Gounod (name) / Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer
to search for ancient relics
Gu county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
Gulin county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
ancient Greece
paleography
to revisit the past / to commemorate
a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras
to revere the past and despise the present (idiom)
paleoanthropology
Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江
cultural movement aspiring to study and emulate classic works, at different periods of history, esp. Tang and Song
Ergun, county-level city, Mongolian Ergüne xot, in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
ancient character / archaic form of a Chinese character

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