Mnemonic comic for

Translation

jiù = ji + ou4: old / opposite: new 新 / former / worn (with age)

Mnemonic

In the year 2076 Joan of Arc (ji) and the sun (日) meet again in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). They are both very old (旧) and have to use dinosaur bones (丨) as crooks.

旧 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 旧 as component

variant of 稻[dao4]
Japanese variant of 兒|儿[er2]
old variant of 焰[yan4]
Japanese variant of 陷[xian4]

Words with 旧

former times / olden days
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
in former times / the olden days
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
see 故態復萌|故态复萌[gu4 tai4 fu4 meng2]
old and damaged / in disrepair
old friend / former acquaintance
old teachings; wisdom from the past / the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教[Tian1 zhu3 jiao4], as opposed to Protestantism 新教[Xin1 jiao4]
old grievance / former complaint
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
former times / the olden days
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历[nong2 li4]
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
old posture / former situation

Sentences with 旧

旧 currently does not appear in any sentence.