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以往

yǐwǎng
nounHSK 5

“In the past” in Chinese is 以往 (yǐwǎng).

Meaning

  • in the past; formerly

Example

今年下的雪比以往少。

We have less snow than usual.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

yǐHSK 24 strokesabbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]wǎngHSK 28 strokesto go (in a direction)

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Not to be confused with: 遗忘 (yíwàng, to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore)