旧舊 in English

Measure word

• 辆 liàng classifier for vehicles attested in use
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 位 wèi position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2... attested in use
• 间 jiān between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars... attested in use
• 顶 dǐng apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to... attested in use

Stroke order

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 舊, the traditional character: 旧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 一个是新的，另一个是旧的。

  One is new, and the other is old.

• 他依旧充满活力。

  He is still very much alive.

• 他扔了很多旧信件。

  He threw away a bunch of old letters.

• 他的兴趣爱好是收集旧邮票。

  His hobby is collecting old stamps.

• 加里宁格勒旧称为哥尼斯堡。

  Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg.

• 她把旧连衣裙换了一条裙子。

  She turned her old dress into a skirt.

• 如果你需要字典，我就把我旧的借给你。

  If you need a dictionary, I can lend you my old one.

• 我依旧相信爱情。

  I still believe in love.

All example sentences with 旧