HSK 3 · Adjectives

旧 jiù “old” in Chinese

Traditional 舊

What 旧 means

  1. old
  2. past
  3. used
  4. opposite: new 新
  5. former
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • worn (with age)

How to say 旧

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale旧jiù4th tone, falling

旧 in a sentence

  1. 他的房子又小又旧。

    Tā de fángzi yòu xiǎo yòu jiù.

    His house is small and old.

    Sentence #334638 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 一个是新的，另一个是旧的。

    Yí ge shì xīn de, lìng yí ge shì jiù de.

    One is new; the other is old.

    Sentence #334784 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我有一辆旧的自行车。

    Wǒ yǒu yí liàng jiù de zìxíngchē.

    I have an old bike.

    Sentence #774525 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 旧 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 旧 (jiù) with each of its parts in a different colour
旧jiùold
  • 丨line · gǔn
  • 日sun · rì

How to write 旧

旧 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

旧 (jiù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 旧 (jiù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 旧

Words with 旧

陈旧chénjiù · outdated仍旧réngjiù · still依旧yījiù · as before

More words: Adjectives

更gèng · more坏huài · bad极jí · an extreme简单jiǎndān · simple可爱kě'ài · cute蓝lán · blue老lǎo · old绿lǜ · green

FAQs

旧 (jiù) means “old” or “past”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it jiù: jiù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 旧 is written 舊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 旧 from the suggestions. Typing jiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
旧 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.