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- Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
- old language
- the Classics
- Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose
- Classical Chinese as a school subject
- guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
Trad. 古箏
- guzheng (large zither with 13 to 25 strings, developed from the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] during Tang and Song times)
Trad. 復古
- to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration)
- to turn back the clock
- neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文
- retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
Trad. 擬古
- to emulate a classic
- to work in the style of a classic (author)
Trad. 古諾
- Gounod (name)
- Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer
- for all eternity
- throughout all ages
- eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
- ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- classical speech sounds
Trad. 古風
- old style
- old custom
- a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1]
Trad. 古龍
- Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
Trad. 懷古
- to recall the past
- to cherish the memory of past events
- to reminisce
- nostalgic
- medieval
- Middle Ages
- Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties
- Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English)
- used
- second-hand
- Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
- near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times)
- people of ancient times
- the ancients
- extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis
- (literary) deceased person
Trad. 古冶區
- Guye, a district of Tangshan City 唐山市[Tang2 shan1 Shi4], Hebei
Trad. 古坑鄉
- Gukeng or Kukeng township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 古城區
- Old town district
- Gucheng district of Lijiang city 麗江市|丽江市[Li4 jiang1 shi4], Yunnan
Trad. 盤古氏
- Pangu (creator of the universe in Chinese mythology)
Trad. 古塔區
- Guta district of Jinzhou city 錦州市|锦州市, Liaoning
Trad. 紅古區
- Honggu, a district of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市[Lan2 zhou1 Shi4], Gansu
- (Tw) traditional style; old-fashioned feel; flavor of yesteryear
Trad. 古浪縣
- Gulang, a county in Wuwei City 武威市[Wu3 wei1 Shi4], Gansu
- Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker
- Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula
- Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪
Trad. 古田縣
- Gutian, a county in Ningde City 寧德市|宁德市[Ning2 de2 Shi4], Fujian
- (name) Gutenberg
- Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468), inventor in Europe of the printing press
- Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale
Trad. 復古會
- anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培[Cai4 Yuan2 pei2]
- aka 光復會|光复会[Guang1 fu4 hui4]
Trad. 古縴道
- Old Towpath along the Grand Canal in Zhejiang Province
Trad. 古董灘
- Gudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 陽關|阳关[Yang2 guan1], named after many Han dynasty archaeological discoveries
Trad. 古藺縣
- Gulin county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州[Lu2 zhou1], Sichuan
Trad. 敘拉古
- Syracuse, Sicily
- also written 錫拉庫薩|锡拉库萨[Xi1 la1 ku4 sa4]
Trad. 古體詩
- a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line
- Former Han dynasty study or rewriting of classical texts such as the Confucian six classics 六經|六经[Liu4 jing1]
Trad. 明古魯
- Bengkulu (Indonesian town on the south coast of Sumatra)
Trad. 古丈縣
- Guzhang, a county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hunan
- Gujiao, a county-level city in Taiyuan City 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 Shi4], Shanxi
- Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[Qing1 Zang4 gao1 yuan2]
Trad. 古人類
- ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
Trad. 古今小說
- Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2], collection of late Ming baihua 白話|白话[bai2 hua4] tales published in 1620
Trad. 古傑拉爾
- (name) Gujral
- Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012), Indian politician, prime minister 1997–1998
Trad. 亙古不變
- unchanging since times immemorial (idiom)
- unalterable
- unvarying
- monotonous
Trad. 亙古未有
- unprecedented
- never seen since ancient times
Trad. 額爾古納
- see 額爾古納市|额尔古纳市[E2 er3 gu3 na4 Shi4]
Trad. 亙古通今
- from ancient times up to now
- throughout history
Trad. 曠古未有
- never before in the whole of history (idiom)
- unprecedented
Trad. 曠古未聞
- never before in the whole of history (idiom)
- unprecedented
- also written 曠古未有|旷古未有
Trad. 奧古斯塔
- Augusta (place name: capital of Maine, city in Georgia etc)
- to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
Trad. 談古論今
- to talk of the past and discuss the present (idiom)
- to chat freely
- to discuss everything
- to borrow the past as a model for the present
Trad. 借古諷今
- to use the past to disparage the present (idiom)
Trad. 古往今來
- since ancient times
- since times immemorial
Trad. 古文觀止
- Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty