喜新厌旧 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 喜新厭舊 xǐxīnyànjiù ㄒㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄡˋ 男 女 lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old Character by character 喜(xǐ)like 新(xīn)new 厌(yàn)loathe 旧(jiù)old Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0