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旧きゅう
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Meanings
Prefix
1. old; former; ex-
Noun
2. the old; old things; old customs
3. old times; bygone days
Noun
Prefix
4. Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar (Abbreviation)
Kanji used
旧old times
Pitch accent
きゅう
Used in vocabulary
旧きゅう正しょう月がつ
lunar New Year (esp. the Chinese New Year)
Noun
旧きゅう石せっ器き時じ代だい
Paleolithic; Palaeolithic; Old Stone Age
Noun
旧きゅう仮か名な遣づかい
old kana orthography (used before 1946 reform); historical kana orthography
Noun
旧きゅう勘かん定じょう
old account
Noun
旧きゅう教きょう徒と
(Roman) Catholic
Noun
旧きゅう形けい式しき
old-structure form
Noun
旧きゅう市し街がい
old town; old part of a city
Noun
旧きゅう思し想そう
old-fashioned idea
Noun
旧きゅう字じ体たい
old character form; kyūjitai; traditional form of kanji used in Japan before 1946
Noun
旧きゅう主しゅ人じん
former lord
Noun
旧きゅう新しん約やく聖せい書しょ
Old and New Testaments
Noun
旧きゅう新しん約やく全ぜん書しょ
Old and New Testaments
Noun
Examples3
Bureaucrats are testing the waters over revising old regulations.
It is important to maintain backward compatibility with software that was written to run on the former system.
The new tunnel is twice as long as the old one.