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  *舊* | 舊* | *舊
old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
still (remaining) / to remain (the same) / yet
HSK 5
as before; still / to remain the same
HSK 5
to feel nostalgic / nostalgia
HSK 7-9
shabby
HSK 7-9
old-fashioned
HSK 7-9
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
out with the old and in with the new (idiom)
San Francisco, California
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
depreciation
old style
second-hand goods / used items for sale
former site; old location
old system / weights and measures of former times
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
old affair / former matter
one's former subordinates
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
to reminisce / to talk about former times
old affection
as before / as in the past
once familiar places / former haunts
to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
worn out / old-fashioned and dilapidated
old term / old way of referring to sth
old friend
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
archaic
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
conservative / reactionary
old residence / former home
notable former families
old capital
place one has previously visited / old haunts
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
rate of deprecation
(idiom) to return to a place after a long time away
to revive old dreams (idiom); to relive past experiences
to restore old way / to return to the past
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
to make friends again / to renew old cordial relations
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
old verse / poetry in the old style
old friend / former acquaintance
(idiom) to continue in the same old rut / diehard conservative attitudes
old illness / former affliction
old dreams
old friends
Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
Old Testament
poetry in the old style
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
old capital
old rules / example from the past / former practices
former times / olden days
old friends
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls
old property (esp. inherited from former generation) / former territory
Paleolithic Era
in former times / the olden days
usher out the old, greet the new / esp. to see in the New Year
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
lunar New Year
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
old friendship
to reminisce
old grievance / former complaint
former appearance / what it used to look like
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
old teachings; wisdom from the past
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
to replace the old with new (idiom)
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
to turn over a new leaf
to act in accordance with the old rules (idiom) / to follow a proven formula
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
old system / former rules
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Gejiu, a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture 紅河哈尼族彝族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan
old habit / former custom
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
former custom; old ways
the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆 or the Americas
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
outmoded / decadent / decaying
old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
old friend / former acquaintance
new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
to resume one's old trade (idiom)

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