IDENTITY
旧jiùold; former
HSK 3Top 500
CORE MEANING
old; former
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.old; wornHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 日sun radical (rì)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰丨日
- the mark
- days
USAGE
Common words
旧车jiùchēused car
旧书jiùshūused book
Graded examples
他卖旧书。Tā mài jiùshū.HSK4
He sells used books.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 归
LEARNING
Memory aid
Days (日) piling up — what is past, old. (From 舊.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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