ancient

surname Gu; old; paleo-

ten (十) + mouth (口) = ten generations of oral tradition = ancient

Ten (十) generations of mouths (口) passing stories down — that which has been spoken across countless generations becomes ancient. The character captures how antiquity lives in transmitted speech.

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TenSemantic
MouthSemantic

这座桥很老,已经有几百年了。

zhè zuò qiáo hěn gǔ lǎo,yǐ jīng yǒu jǐ bǎi nián le。

This bridge is very ancient, it has already been around for several hundred years.

他对代的历史和文化很感兴趣。

tā duì gǔ dài de lì shǐ hé wén huà hěn gǎn xìng qù。

He is very interested in ancient history and culture.

Words with 古

亘古不变

gèn gǔ bù biàn

unchanging since times immemorial (idiom)

古巴

gǔ bā

Cuba

蒙古国

měng gǔ guó

Mongolia

通古斯

tōng gǔ sī

Tungus

远古

yuǎn gǔ

antiquity

辽宁古盗鸟

liáo níng gǔ dào niǎo

Archaeoraptor liaoningensis (bird-like dinosaur found in Liaoning province)

邃古

suì gǔ

remote antiquity

那古屋

nà gǔ wū

Nagoya, city in Japan (old spelling)

阜新蒙古族自治县

fù xīn měng gǔ zú zì zhì xiàn

Fuxin Mongol autonomous county in Fuxin 阜新, Liaoning

震古烁今

zhèn gǔ shuò jīn

lit. to astonish the ancients and dazzle contemporaries (idiom)

额尔古纳

é ěr gǔ nà

see 額爾古納市|额尔古纳市[E2 er3 gu3 na4 Shi4]

额尔古纳市

é ěr gǔ nà shì

Ergun, a county-level city in Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia

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