旧きゅう事じ

also: くじ

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Meanings

past events; bygones

Refers to things that happened in the past, often with a nuance of being over and done with. Can be used in expressions like 旧事を忘れる (forget the past).

旧きゅう事じをいつまでもくよくよ考かんがえても仕し方かたがない。
There's no point in brooding over past events forever.
彼かれは旧きゅう事じを水みずに流ながして、新あたらしい人じん生せいを始はじめた。
He let bygones be bygones and started a new life.

Usage patterns

〈事こと〉を忘わすれるto forget past events
彼かれは旧きゅう事じを忘わすれて新あたらしい生せい活かつを始はじめた。
He put the past behind him and started a new life.
〈事こと〉を語かたるto speak of past events
老ろう人じんは若わかい頃ころの旧きゅう事じを語かたり続つづけた。
The old man kept telling stories of past events from his youth.
〈事こと〉を思おもい出だすto recall past events
この写しゃ真しんを見みると旧きゅう事じを思おもい出だす。
Looking at this photo brings back memories of the past.

Kanji

旧old times, old things, old friend
事matter, thing, fact

Related words

過か去こN3
過去 is the general, everyday word for 'the past', while 旧事 is a literary term for specific past events or matters.
往おう事じ
往事 and 旧事 both mean 'bygone events', but 往事 is even more literary and rarely used in modern speech.

Don't confuse with

旧きゅう字じ
旧事 (past events) and 旧字 (old-style kanji forms) are pronounced identically as きゅうじ but refer to completely different things.

Written forms

旧事Usage100%
- きゅうじ
  Standard kanji spelling for this word.
- くじ
  Alternate reading, less common than きゅうじ.
くじ

Etymology

Compound of 旧 (old, former) and 事 (matter, thing). The reading きゅうじ is the standard on'yomi, while くじ is a less common variant reading.