古
Meanings
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- 1.surname Gu
- 1.ancient
- 2.old
- 3.paleo-
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Wiktionary
- 1.the past; ancient times
- 2.old; ancient
- 3.classic; old-styled
- 4.simple; unaffected; unsophisticated,
- 5.things in the past; antiquities; history
- 6.story (Classifier: 段 c)
- 7.a surname
- 8.only used in 古成
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事): A shield (甲, contraction of 盾 and similar but unrelated to 中) and the radical of the mouth (口) both as a distinguishing mark and as a component that partly indicates pronunciation. Together, they indicate the concept of "strong, firm" (as strong as a shield); original form of 固 (OC *kaːs) (Qiu Xigui, Ding Shan 丁山). Compare oracle bone forms with 干, 盾. Unrelated to 中 and hence to 史 and 使. Fang (1982) finds evidence for the 十 component originally being a depiction of a piece of food and the character originally being a depiction of someone spitting out a piece of food due to his bad taste. Thus, Fang argues this character is the original form of 苦 (kǔ), "bitter". From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ga (“old”). Cognate with 故 (OC *kaːs, “old things; former; dead”) and Tibetan རྒ (rga, “to be old; aged”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
京都以古廟有名。
Kyoto is famous for its old temples.
京都有許多古剎。
There are many old temples in Kyoto.
我的嗜好是收集古錢幣。
My hobby is collecting old coins.
這裡就像在古時候一樣。
This place still looks the same as it did a long time ago.
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Derived terms
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