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古老

gǔ lǎo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

古老 (gǔ lǎo) means "age-old, ancient". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 古老 means

1. ancient
2. old
3. age-old

The characters in 古老

• 古gǔancient; old; paleo-
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…

Example sentences

• 希腊是个古老的国家。
  Xīlà shì ge gǔlǎo de guójiā.
  Greece is an old country.
• 我买了一盏古老的灯。
  Wǒ mǎi le yī zhǎn gǔlǎo de dēng.
  I bought an ancient lamp.
• 这是多古老的书本呀！
  Zhè shì duō gǔlǎo de shūběn ya!
  What an old book this is!
• 这是一座古老的城堡。
  This is an ancient castle.
• 城里有一家古老的电影院。
  There's an old movie theater in town.
• 奈良是个非常古老的城市。
  Nara is a very old city.

Words starting with 古老

• 古老肉gǔ lǎo ròusweet and sour pork; also written 咕噜肉

Where 古老 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Festivals, Traditions & Cultural History (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gǔ lǎo correctly.
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