Mnemonic comic for 古
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.
Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
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All translations for 古
surname Gu
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ancient / old / paleo-
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古 character breakdown
ten / 10
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mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Characters with 古 as component
hard / strong / solid / sure / assuredly / undoubtedly / of course / indeed / admittedly
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dried up
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non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])
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beard / mustache / whiskers
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see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
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surname Hu
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old / second-hand (clothes)
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estimate
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variant of 剋|克[ke4]
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abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Ke4 luo2 di4 ya4], Croatia / (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Ke4 luo2 ai1 xi1 ya4], Croatia
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to be able to / to subdue / to restrain / to overcome / gram / Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares
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Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God
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Words with 古
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
Inner Mongolia / abbr. for 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[Nei4 meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 qu1], Inner Mongolia autonomous region
Former Han dynasty study or rewriting of classical texts such as the Confucian six classics 六經|六经[Liu4 jing1]
unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous
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