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 adjective out of date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)
  9. adjective ancient; old; purāṇa
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: purāṇa, Japanese: ko (BCSD '古', p. 233; MW 'purāṇa'; SH '古', p. 169; Unihan '古')

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  • Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 153
  • Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 140
  • Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 64
  • Scroll 1 San Guo Yi Shi 三國遺事 — count: 39
  • Scroll 3 San Guo Yi Shi 三國遺事 — count: 38
  • Scroll 52 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 35
  • Scroll 1 A Summary of the Meaning of Nyāyamukha 因明義斷 — count: 34
  • Scroll 1 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 29
  • Scroll 1 A Summary of Nyāyamukha 因明入正理論義纂要 — count: 28
  • Scroll 56 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 28

Collocations

  • 古世 (古世) 昔我古世時 — Sutra on the Buddha's Liberation of the Brahmin Āmraṣṭha (Fo Kaijie Fanzhi Aba Jing) 佛開解梵志阿颰經, Scroll 1 — count: 16
  • 博古 (博古) 博古明今 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 19 — count: 12
  • 古知 (古知) 夫博學之士探古知今 — Chu Yao Jing (Dharmapada) 出曜經, Scroll 13 — count: 11
  • 古仙 (古仙) 謂從古仙之所傳習 — The Story of the Two Brahmins Vāsiṣṭa and Bhāradvāja (Baiyi Jin Chuang Er Poluomen Yuanqi Jing) 白衣金幢二婆羅門緣起經, Scroll 1 — count: 11
  • 古圣 (古聖) 得古聖制法 — Śṛgālavāda Sūtra (Shan Sheng Zi Jing) 善生子經, Scroll 1 — count: 10
  • 古仙人 (古仙人) 我得古仙人道 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 10
  • 古明 (古明) 博古明今 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 19 — count: 8
  • 探古 (探古) 最上座道人博綜群籍探古達今 — Za Piyu Jing 雜譬喻經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 古王 (古王) 世典古王傳 — Fo Ben Xing Jing 佛本行經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 古贤 (古賢) 有古賢之弘仁 — Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經, Scroll 6 — count: 5