organism from the geological past
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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.
palaeontology
Archaeoraptor (bird-like dinosaur)
seventy years old
guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴[] during Tang and Song times)
ancient text / antique books
ancient meaning / original or etymological meaning of a word
sweet and sour pork / also written 咕嚕肉|咕噜肉[]
vertebrate paleontology
interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
costume drama
old adage / ancient teaching
old verse / Classical Chinese poem
ancient proverb / old saying
ancient road / precepts of the antiquity
ancient capital
quaint / odd and picturesque / weird and wonderful
(bird species of China) bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus)
ancient Athens
(idiom) mischievously clever / whimsically quirky
ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character / classical speech sounds
old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[]
a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line
(onom.) the sound of a rolling object
a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
the distant past / ancient times / antiquity / early historical times
Old Chinese (linguistics)
medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
unchanging since times immemorial (idiom) / unalterable / unvarying / monotonous
unprecedented / never seen since ancient times
from ancient times up to now / throughout history
(idiom) moral standards are much lower now than in former times
Former Han dynasty study or rewriting of classical texts such as the Confucian six classics 六經|六经[]
pseudo-classical / modeled on antique / in the old style
to die / to pass away
to borrow the past as a model for the present
to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27