舊 hanja, meaning old, read 구 (gu)
Reading
old, ancient; former, past
예 구ye gu
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 예 (ye) is the Korean for old, and 구 (gu) is the reading. Say 예 구 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- ⾅ 134
- Beyond radical
- 12
- Mandarin
- jiù
- Japanese on
- kyuu
- Japanese kun
- hisashii
Vocabulary
Words that use 舊
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
In the grammar lessons
Seen in these lessons
- 이 / 가 · Subject Particlesuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 을 / 를 · Object Particlesuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 의 · Possessiveuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 들 · Plural Particleuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 에게 / 한테 / 께 · Dative (To a person)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- 처럼 / 같이 · Simile / Likeuses 친구 chingu · friend
- (이)라고 / 고 · Quotationuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 대신에 · Instead ofuses 친구 chingu · friend
- (이)야말로 · Ultimate Emphasisuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 덕분에 · Positive Reasonuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 보고 · Recipient (Speech)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- 끼리 · Among / Betweenuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 에게서 / 한테서 · From (Person)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- (으)로서 · As (Role/Status)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- 더러 · To (Spoken)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- (으)러 · Purpose (Going to)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- 고 있다 · Progressive (Ing)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- (으)려고 하다 · Intention (Planning to)uses 친구 chingu · friend
- 아/어 있다 · Resulting Stateuses 친구 chingu · friend
- 아/어서 · Because / And Thenuses 친구 chingu · friend
- (으)로부터 · From (Source)uses 친구 chingu · friend
Same sound, different character
20 characters are all read 구 (gu).
Korean has far more hanja than it has syllables, so one sound covers many characters. Write 구 in hangul and it could be any of these. The hanja is what says which one you mean. That is why hanja still turn up in dictionaries, newspaper headlines and legal writing, where guessing from context is not good enough.
All of them are written 구 in hangul.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.