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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Shorthand for (one) + (day), representing the day before today (the past)

Constituents: .

[edit] Han character

(radical 72 +1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中日 (LA), composition)

  1. old, ancient
  2. former, past

[edit] References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 489, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13737
  • Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1483, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+65E7

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(traditional , Yale gau6)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

(hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū)

  1. old things, original state, former state, old times
  2. the old calendar based on a lunar system

(hiragana ふる, romaji furu)

  1. used item, secondhand item

[edit] Prefix

(hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū)

  1. ex-

(hiragana ふる, romaji furu)

  1. old, used, previous

[edit] Kanji

(grade 5 kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(traditional , pinyin jiù (jiu4), Wade-Giles chiu4)