The Chinese word 叙旧 (xùjiù) is a compound verb formed by combining the character 叙, meaning "to narrate" or "to talk about," with the character 旧, meaning "old" or "the past." Literally, it means "to narrate the old," but its conventional and collective meaning is "to reminisce" or "to talk about old times," specifically describing the act of catching up with an old friend or acquaintance by recalling shared memories and past experiences. The formation follows a common grammatical structure in Chinese where a verb (叙) is paired with its object (旧) to create a new, idiomatic verbal phrase whose meaning is more specific than the sum of its parts.