old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
former residence
notable former families
old residence / former home
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
old grievance / former complaint
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
old worries with new hatred added (idiom) / afflicted by problems old and new
ex / former lover
old posture / former situation
see 故態復萌|故态复萌[]
old and damaged / in disrepair
old friend / former acquaintance
old teachings / wisdom from the past
former times / the olden days
scenes of the past reappear / evocation of the past
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历[]
lunar New Year
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
old school / conservative faction
old version
lit. new wine in old bottles / fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
old illness / former affliction
old illness recurs (idiom) / a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
old calendar / out-of-date customs
old acquaintance / former friend
old term / old way of referring to sth
old habit / former custom
outdated news / old anecdote / stories passed on from former times
former appearance / what it used to look like
old verse / poetry in the old style
old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff
replaying the same old tunes (idiom) / conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
former acquaintance / old friend
old look / former appearance
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
old system / former rules
old traces / signs from the past
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27