きゅう
Meanings
Prefix
1. old; former; ex-
Let's leave the old school building.
Noun
2. the old; old things; old customs
3. old times; bygone days
Noun
Prefix
Abbreviation
4. Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar
Pitch accent
きゅ
う
Used in vocabulary (135 in total)
old school; old style
old capital; former capital
old promise; old agreement; old covenant; Old Testament
Examples (8 in total)
I wanted to go to the former kingdom.
The new school building is in the foreground, and the old school building is in the background.
The new tunnel is twice as long as the old one.
It is a tactic that was often adopted in the era of the old civilization.
This car is an evolved form of the old model.
Then the two of us move to the courtyard between the new school building and the old one.
Beyond the small grove of trees, there is an old wooden school building.
It is important to maintain backward compatibility with software that was written to run on the former system.