1. adjective ancient; old; palaeo-
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Middle Chinese: kuX, Japanese: furu, or: ko; in the sense of old in historic terms (ABC 'gǔ' sv 1; David 2013, p. 1731; Kroll 2015 '古', p. 139; NCCED '古' 3; Unihan '古')
  2. adjective ancient; old
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Often begins a sentence that ends in 者 in Literary Chinese to mean 'in ancient times.' (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 119)
  3. adjective out of date
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: (Ci Yian '古' 2; ABC 'gǔ' sv 2; GHC '古' 1)
  4. noun former times
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Ci Yian '古' 1; GHC '古' 1; NCCED '古' 1)
  5. noun events in former times
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '古' 2)
  6. adjective sincere; unpretentious
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (NCCED '古' 4)
  7. adjective an ancient style of poetry
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Pre-Tang form (NCCED '古' 5)
  8. proper noun Gu
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Ci Yian '古' 3)

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