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故gù事shì

  1. old practice

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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故
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

happening, instance, reason, cause, intentional, former, old, friend, therefore, hence, (of people) to die, dead

Pinyin
gù
Strokes
9
Frequency
17793 of 2500
Words starting with 故Words ending in 故Anywhere in a word
事
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

matter, thing, item, work, affair, CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
8
Frequency
68 of 2500
Words starting with 事Words ending in 事Anywhere in a word