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旧 — old times, old things, old friend

きゅう旧 old times

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

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.

Meanings

old times
old things
old friend
former
ex-

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

Appears in idioms

旧態依然四字熟語

old times, attitude, reliant, sort of thing

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5

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

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.