Level III of XX on the frequency path
Frequency rank 376 / 2,608
Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.
More common than 馬 (Horse), less common than 映 (Reflect).
The character 古 (old) looks like a cross on top of a mouth — an ancient tombstone with a cross, so old that even the mouth beneath has gone silent.
古 is rank 376 of 2,608 in published Japanese.
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