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古董

gǔ dǒng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

古董 (gǔ dǒng) means "curio; antique". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 古董 means

1. curio
2. antique

The characters in 古董

• 古gǔancient; old; paleo-
• 董dǒngto supervise; to direct; director

Example sentences

• 好啦，老古董。
  OK, boomer.
• 她对古董很感兴趣。
  Tā duì gǔdǒng hěn gǎnxìngqù.
  She has a great love for antique goods.
• 她看古董的眼光很好。
  Tā kàn gǔdǒng de yǎnguāng hěn hǎo.
  She has an eye for antiques.
• 他对古董很有鉴赏力。
  He has an eye for antiques.
• 他很有鉴赏古董的眼光。
  Tā hěn yǒu jiànshǎng gǔdǒng de yǎnguāng.
  He has an eye for antiques.
• 他偶然在古董店里发现了这个旧硬币。
  He came across this old coin in an antique shop.

Words starting with 古董

• 古董滩Gǔ dǒng tānGudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 阳关

Words containing 古董

• 老古董lǎo gǔ dǒngantique; old relic; (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey

Sounds the same

Read gǔ dǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 骨董variant of 古董

Where 古董 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gòu–gù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gǔ dǒng correctly.
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