旧 (jiù) means Old. Below are 24 of the 27 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这件衣服很 旧 了。
Zhè jiàn yīfu hěn jiù le.
This piece of clothing is quite old now.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 旧
他的自行车又 旧 又慢。
Tā de zìxíngchē yòu jiù yòu màn.
His bicycle is both old and slow.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 旧
这些 旧 衣服别扔了。
Zhèxiē jiù yīfu bié rēng le.
Do not throw these old clothes away.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 扔
情况仍 旧 没有好转。
Qíngkuàng réngjiù méiyǒu hǎozhuǎn.
The situation still has not improved.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 仍旧
那面 旧 墙昨晚塌了。
Nà miàn jiù qiáng zuówǎn tā le.
That old wall collapsed last night.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 塌
这本 旧 书是他的宝贝。
Zhè běn jiù shū shì tā de bǎobèi.
This old book is his treasure.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 宝贝
这座 旧 楼下个月要拆。
Zhè zuò jiù lóu xià ge yuè yào chāi.
This old building will be demolished next month.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 拆
屋顶上吊着一盏 旧 灯。
Wūdǐng shang diàozhe yì zhǎn jiù dēng.
An old lamp hangs from the ceiling.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 吊
桌上放着几枚 旧 硬币。
Zhuō shang fàngzhe jǐ méi jiù yìngbì.
Several old coins lie on the table.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 枚
他收藏了很多 旧 邮票。
Tā shōucáng le hěn duō jiù yóupiào.
He has collected a great many old stamps.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 收藏
他依 旧 每天六点起床。
Tā yījiù měi tiān liù diǎn qǐchuáng.
He still gets up at six every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 依旧
旧 的观念正在慢慢解体。
Jiù de guānniàn zhèngzài mànmàn jiětǐ.
The old ideas are slowly breaking down.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 解体
旧 观念束缚了他的想法。
Jiù guānniàn shùfù le tā de xiǎngfǎ.
Old ideas constrained his thinking.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 束缚
这些 旧 东西统统扔掉吧。
Zhèxiē jiù dōngxi tǒngtǒng rēng diào ba.
Let's throw all this old stuff out.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 统统
新 旧 制度需要平稳衔接。
Xīn jiù zhìdù xūyào píngwěn xiánjiē.
The old and new systems need to be joined up smoothly.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 衔接
这些设备已经相当陈 旧 了。
Zhèxiē shèbèi yǐjīng xiāngdāng chénjiù le.
This equipment is already rather outdated.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 陈旧
他有些观念确实比较陈 旧 。
Tā yǒuxiē guānniàn quèshí bǐjiào chénjiù.
Some of his ideas really are rather old-fashioned.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 陈旧
这栋楼的外表看起来很 旧 。
Zhè dòng lóu de wàibiǎo kàn qǐlái hěn jiù.
The outside of this building looks very old.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 外表
新车的性能比 旧 车好很多。
Xīn chē de xìngnéng bǐ jiù chē hǎo hěn duō.
The new car performs far better than the old one.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 性能
多年过去,这里依 旧 没变。
Duō nián guòqù, zhèlǐ yījiù méi biàn.
After all these years this place is still unchanged.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 依旧
妈妈舍不得扔掉这件 旧 衣服。
Māma shěbude rēng diào zhè jiàn jiù yīfu.
Mother cannot bear to throw out this old piece of clothing.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 舍不得
自然规律决定了 旧 事物的灭亡。
Zìrán guīlǜ juédìng le jiù shìwù de mièwáng.
Natural law determines the passing away of old things.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 灭亡
Reading these is one thing; producing 旧 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
有一个 旧 箱子,我一直没打开。
yǒu yīgè jiù xiāngzi, wǒ yìzhí méi dǎkāi.
There was one old box I kept not opening.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
整理 旧 东西的时候,我在一本书里发现了一张老照片。
zhěnglǐ jiù dōngxī de / dì shíhou, wǒ zài yī běnshū lǐ fāxiànle yī zhāng lǎo zhàopiàn.
While sorting out old things I found an old photograph inside a book.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
旧 appears in 27 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 旧
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 旧
How is 旧 used in a sentence?
This page shows 27 sentences using 旧 (jiù, "Old"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 旧 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 旧 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 旧 an HSK word?
Yes — 旧 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 旧?
The dictionary page for 旧 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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