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古 kanji
old
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コ
Kun readings
ふるいふる--ふるす
Words with 古
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —古寺old temple
- —古酒well-cured sake; last year's sake; old sake
- —古物antique; old article; secondhand goods
- —古希70th birthday; ancient Greek (language)
- —古言old saying; old expression; old language; ancient language; archaic word
- —古址historic ruins; foundations of an ancient building
- —古注commentaries of the ancients
- —曠古historic; unprecedented
- —古拙artless but attractive in a quaint sense
- —往古ancient times
- —尚古respect for olden days
- —近古early modern age
- —好古love of antiquities
- —亘古for ever; from ancient times
- —新古old and new (thing); old, but unused
- —古層layers of history
- —亙古from long ago up until the present day
- —古訳pre-Kumarajiva Chinese translation (i.e. before the 5th century)
- —古馬horses 4 or more years old (usu. in racing)
- —古名old name; former name