古 – Kanji details

Keyword

old

Info

Frequency	Top 500-600
Type	Kyōiku (2nd grade) ?
Kanken	Level 9
Heisig	16
Readings	こ (51%) ふる (40%) いにしえ (4%) ご (1%)
	ぶるぐうぐうごいにし

Composed of

十

ten

口

mouth

Mnemonic

A pictograph of an old gravestone.

Used in kanji (16 in total)

苦

suffering

居

to be (animate object)

past

solidify

wither

ancient barbarian

mother-in-law

buying & selling

sin

depend

cobalt

???

mole cricket

exegesis

old business

almost enemy

Used in vocabulary (481 in total)

古ふるい

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

古こ代だい

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

稽けい古こ

practice; practising; training; study

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Examples (200 in total)

あなたの考かんがえは、ちょっと古ふるいんだって。

Your ideas are a bit outdated.

あの古ふるい車くるまを本ほん気きで買かおうと思おもっているんですか？

Are you seriously thinking about buying that old car?

あれは古ふるいお城しろです。

That is an old castle.

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