旧 jiù▶ tua,bekas

Stroke order

旧 is written in 5 strokes.

• 旧

Senses

1. old
2. opposite: new 新
3. former
4. worn (with age)

Example sentences

• 这本书很旧了。Zhè běn shū hěn jiù le.This book is very old.
• 他不想买旧车。Tā bù xiǎng mǎi jiù chē.He does not want to buy a used car.

Related words

• 仍旧masih
• 依旧masih
• 陈旧usang

旧 is pronounced jiù and means “tua,bekas”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 旧 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.