| 古 |
gǔ wǎng jīn lái | since ancient times / since times immemorial |
| 古 |
Gǔ | surname Gu |
| 古 |
gǔ | ancient / old / paleo- |
| 往 |
wǎng | to go (in a direction) / to / towards / (of a train) bound for / past / previous |
| 往 |
wǎng | old variant of 往 |
| 今 |
jīn | now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc) |
| 来 |
lái | to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来) / ever since (as in 自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来) |