旧 — old times, old things, old friend

きゅう旧 old times

きゅう

U+65E7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #549 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #35 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

old times
old things
old friend
former
ex-

Readings

On'yomi: きゅう kyuu
Kun'yomi: ふる furu もと moto

word

きゅう kyuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

旧(きゅう) kyuu old 復(ふっ) 旧(きゅう) fukkyuu restoration 旧(きゅう) 約(やく) kyuuyaku Old Testament 旧(きゅう) 来(らい) kyuurai traditional 新(しん) 旧(きゅう) shinkyuu new and old 旧(きゅう) 制(せい) kyuusei old system 旧(きゅう) 式(しき) kyuushiki old type 旧(きゅう) 態(たい) kyuutai old state of affairs

Words by frequency and grade

11 words

Each dot is a word containing 旧: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 7 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

旧態依然四字熟語

old state, as before

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

丨 pole

ひ日 sun #72

Used as component in (3)

じ児 newborn babe いね稲 rice plant おちいる陥 collapse

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#72 日 sun