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悠久

yōu jiǔ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

悠久 (yōu jiǔ) means "long-standing (history)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 悠久 means

1. long (tradition, history etc)

The characters in 悠久

• 悠yōulong or drawn out; remote in time or space; leisurely
• 久jiǔ(of a period of time) long

Example sentences

• 印度的历史悠久。
  Yìndù de lìshǐ yōujiǔ.
  India has a very old history.
• 中国历史比日本历史更悠久。
  Zhōngguó lìshǐ bǐ Rìběn lìshǐ gèng yōujiǔ.
  The history of China is older than that of Japan.
• 京都和奈良都是历史悠久的古城。
  Jīngdū hé Nàiliáng dōu shì lìshǐyōujiǔ de gǔchéng.
  Nara is as old as Kyoto.

Words containing 悠久

• 历史悠久lì shǐ yōu jiǔlong-established; time-honored

Where 悠久 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Advantage, Leisure & Grace (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 yōu jiǔ correctly.
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