旧瓶装新酒 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 舊瓶裝新酒 jiùpíngzhuāngxīnjiǔ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄨㄤ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄡˇ lit. new wine in old bottles fig. new concepts in an old framework (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite) Character by character 旧(jiù)old 瓶(píng)bottle 装(zhuāng)adornment 新(xīn)new 酒(jiǔ)wine A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0