きゅう
Meanings
Prefix
1. Alter; Altheit; alte Sache; früher; ehemalig; Mondkalender (galt in Japan bis 1872); nach dem Mondkalender
2. Alt…; Ex…; ehemalig
Kanji used
old times
Pitch accent
きゅ
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Used in vocabulary (134 in total)
altmodisch; veraltet; Veraltetheit; alte Form; altes Design
Examples (3 in total)
The former President's death was announced.
The new tunnel is twice as long as the old one.
It is important to maintain backward compatibility with software that was written to run on the former system.