I have an old car.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
老旧
outmoded
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
outmoded
02
old-fashioned
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 老旧 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老旧 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
I saw an old and hollow pecan tree that had some bees flying around it.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 老旧.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老旧.
Directly before
- 辆老旧1
- 一棵老旧1
- 已经老旧1
Directly after
- 老旧的2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 老旧
What does 老旧 mean in Chinese?
老旧 (lǎojiù) means outmoded.
How do you pronounce 老旧?
老旧 is pronounced lǎojiù.
Is 老旧 an HSK word?
老旧 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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