舊

See also: 旧

Translingual

Japanese	旧
Simplified	旧
Traditional	舊

Han character

舊 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土難 (TOGX), four-corner 4477₇, composition ⿱雈臼(HT) or ⿱萑臼(GJKV))

Derived characters

• 嚿, 欍, 匶, 𠥬, 𢑇, 𦧃, 𭍸

Related characters

• 旧 (Japanese shinjitai and simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1006, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30249
• Dae Jaweon: page 1462, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3043, character 18
• Unihan data for U+820A

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Chinese

trad.		舊
simp.		旧*
alternative forms		𦾔 (calligraphic variant) 𫡹 (ancient form in Bronze inscription)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (臼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
臼	*ɡuʔ
齨	*ɡuʔ
桕	*ɡuʔ
舅	*ɡuʔ
舊	*ɡʷɯs
匶	*ɡʷɯs
閰	*kuɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷɯs) : semantic 雈 (“owl”) + phonetic 臼 (OC *ɡuʔ).

Originally refers to a type of owl; later borrowed for a homophonous word meaning "old." The upper portion frequently appears as 萑 (a type of grass).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)əw-n (“elder brother; senior male relative”); cognate with 舅 (OC *ɡuʔ, “maternal uncle”), 昆 (OC *kuːn, “elder brother”) (STEDT).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 舊

1. old; former; past

   他重獲舊職。／他重获旧职。  ―  Tā chónghuò jiù zhí.  ―  He got his former job back.

   你的新房子和你的舊房子比起來怎樣？ [MSC, trad.]
   你的新房子和你的旧房子比起来怎样？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ de xīn fángzǐ hé nǐ de jiù fángzǐ bǐ qǐlái zěnyàng? [Pinyin]

   How does your new house compare with your old one?

2. old; used; worn

   地毯舊了，但還能用。 [MSC, trad.]
   地毯旧了，但还能用。 [MSC, simp.]

   Dì tǎn jiù le, dàn hái néng yòng. [Pinyin]

   The carpet is worn but still serviceable.

   我在閣樓上有好幾箱舊衣服。 [MSC, trad.]
   我在阁楼上有好几箱旧衣服。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ zài gélóu shàng yǒu hǎojǐ xiāng jiù yīfú. [Pinyin]

   I've got boxes of old clothes in the attic.

Synonyms

• 老 (lǎo, “old; aged”)

Antonyms

• 新 (xīn, “new”)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #12587”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	旧
Kyūjitai	舊

Kanji

舊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 旧)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: く (ku)
• Kun: ふるい (furui, 舊い); もと (moto, 舊)

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Korean

Hanja

舊 • (gu) (hangeul 구)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 舊 (cựu, lâu)

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