Illustration: On the counter of a neighborhood Japanese tea shop, an owner places a pristine metal kettle beside the old kettle it will replace. Both share the same distinctive shape, but the older one has a repaired handle, a dented side, and a base darkened by years of use.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

新しん旧きゅう

shinkyuu

new and old

Example sentences

  1. 新旧しんきゅう・異種いしゅの電池でんちを混用こんようしないでください。

    Please do not simultaneously use new and old batteries or different batteries.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 現在げんざいは年間ねんかんを通とおして新旧しんきゅうの行事ぎょうじで賑にぎわいい、国際観光文化都市こくさいかんこうぶんかとしとして国内外こくないがいから多数たすうの観光客かんこうきゃくが訪おとずれている。

    Today, the city is vibrant throughout the year with old and new events, and attracts many tourists from Japan and abroad as an international tourist and cultural city.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. また、いわゆる「平成へいせいの大合併だいがっぺい」で市町村名しちょうそんめいの変更へんこうのあった地域ちいきも多おおいことから新旧しんきゅう住所じゅうしょの対応たいおうなどに追おわれることも考かんがえられよう。

    There may be another factor whereby the regular workers have to match old addresses with new ones in many areas where the municipal names have changed due to the so-called "great merger of municipalities in the Heisei era."

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 新旧

  • 新newOnシンKunあたらしい・あらた・あら-
  • 旧old times; old thingsOnキュウKunふるい・もと

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