故交

gùjiāo
  1. former acquaintance
  2. old friend

CEDICT

  1. (literary) old friend
  2. old friend

Wiktionary

旧友。《儒林外史．第八回》：「他虽犯罪朝廷，却与我是个故交。」也作「故旧」、「故知」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 故 gù
  1. happening
  2. instance
  3. reason
  4. cause
  5. intentional
  6. former
  7. old
  8. friend
  9. therefore
  10. hence
  11. (of people) to die, dead
2 交 jiāo
  1. to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over
  2. to make friends
  3. (of lines) to intersect
  4. variant of 跤 jiāo

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