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旧

jiù

HSK 3 · word 1626 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

那本书很旧。

nà běn shū hěn jiù

That book is very old.

The character 旧

旧 is old of things where 老 is old of people: 旧书 a second-hand book, 旧车, 旧房子. 新 is what it stands against in every one of them.

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