仍旧
réngjiù · HSK 5
still
仍 = still/yet + 旧 = old; literally 'still old' = as before
仍 carries the sense of 'still, yet, remain'; 旧 means 'old, former, past'. Together 仍旧 = 'remains as it was before' — unchanged, still the same. Common synonym of 仍然.
仍 — person radical 亻 + 乃
A semantic-phonetic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning while 乃 supplies the sound. Originally suggesting a person continuing or repeating an action, it came to mean 'still', 'yet', or 'as before'.
旧 — 丨 vertical stroke + 日 sun/day
旧 is the simplified form of 舊, which originally depicted an owl (萑) perched on a nest (臼) and was borrowed phonetically to mean 'old' or 'former.' The modern simplified shape combines 丨 with 日 (sun/day), suggesting days gone by. Today it means 'old,' 'former,' or 'used.'