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- happening
- instance
- reason
- cause
- intentional
- former
- old
- friend
- therefore
- hence
- (of people) to die, dead
Trad. 故宮
- the Forbidden City
- abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院[Gu4 gong1 Bo2 wu4 yuan4]
- old and respected family
- family whose members have been officials from generation to generation
- malfunction
- breakdown
- defect
- shortcoming
- fault
- failure
- impediment
- error
- bug (in software)
Trad. 故城縣
- Gucheng, a county in Hengshui City 衡水市[Heng2 shui3 Shi4], Hebei
Trad. 瀋陽故宮
- Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum
Trad. 同鄉親故
- fellow countryman (from the same village)
- the folks back home
Trad. 無緣無故
- (idiom) no cause or reason; completely uncalled for
Trad. 溫故知新
- to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
- to recall the past to understand the future
Trad. 非親非故
- lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom)
- fig. unrelated to one another in any way
Trad. 明知故問
- (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer
- deliberate violation (idiom); intentional crime
- worldly wisdom
- the ways of the world
- to know how to get on in the world
Trad. 平白無故
- (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably
Trad. 一改故轍
- complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
- a volte-face
- to change old practices
Trad. 欲擒故縱
- In order to capture, one must let loose.
- to loosen the reins only to grasp them better
Trad. 憑白無故
- variant of 平白無故|平白无故[ping2 bai2 wu2 gu4]
- (idiom) back to where we were; absolutely no improvement; things haven't changed at all
- to be one's old self (idiom)
- to be unchanged
- (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways
Trad. 公傷事故
- industrial accident
- work-related injury
Trad. 沾親帶故
- (idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc)
Trad. 責任事故
- accident occurring due to negligence
- to repeat an old stratagem
- up to one's old tricks
Trad. 蹈常襲故
- follow the same old path (idiom); stuck in a rut
- always the same routine
Trad. 故作端莊
- artificial show of seriousness
- to pretend to be solemn
Trad. 成語典故
- historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying
Trad. 故地重遊
- see 舊地重遊|旧地重游[jiu4 di4 chong2 you2]
Trad. 吐故納新
- lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new
Trad. 故弄玄虛
- deliberately mystifying
- to make sth unnecessarily complicated
- stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas
- stagnating and conservative
Trad. 鑽故紙堆
- to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
Trad. 羌無故實
- to have no basis in fact (idiom)
Trad. 攀親道故
- (idiom) to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially
- to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
Trad. 老於世故
- experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise
- sophisticated
Trad. 他鄉遇故知
- meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
Trad. 溫故而知新
- to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
- to recall the past to understand the future
Trad. 故宮博物院
- Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing
- National Palace Museum, Taipei
- The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[Qiao2 sou3]