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旧事

jiù shì

2-character word Traditional 舊事

What 旧事 means

1. old affair
2. former matter

The characters in 旧事

• 旧jiùold; opposite: new 新; former
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 新事物取代旧事物推动历史发展。
  Xīn shìwù qǔdài jiùshì wù tuīdòng lìshǐ fāzhǎn.
  History develops through the replacement of the old by the new.

Words containing 旧事

• 重提旧事chóng tí jiù shìto raise the same old topic again; to hark back

Sounds the same

Read jiù shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

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