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Chinese
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year
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substitute; replace; generation substitute; replace; generation; dynasty; geological era; era; age; period
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simp. and trad. (年代)
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年
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代
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Pronunciation
Noun
年代
- age; era; period
- 確定年代/确定年代 ― quèdìng niándài ― to determine the age; to date
- number of years; year count
- time (in general)
- a decade of a century
中國政府在1970年代開始推行計劃生育。 [MSC, trad.]
中国政府在1970年代开始推行计划生育。 [MSC, simp.]- Zhōngguó zhèngfǔ zài 1970 niándài kāishǐ tuīxíng jìhuàshēngyù.
- In the 1970s, the Chinese government started to enact the One-Child Policy.
- year timeline; dating; chronology
- 年代測定/年代测定 ― niándài cèdìng ― dating
- 夏王朝年代 ― Xià Wángcháo niándài ― chronology of the Xia dynasty
Synonyms
- 世 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
- 世代 (shìdài) (literary)
- 光陰/光阴 (Dungan)
- 年候兒/年候儿 (niánhour) (Beijing Mandarin)
- 年歲/年岁 (niánsuì)
- 年華/年华 (niánhuá)
- 時代/时代 (shídài)
- 時期/时期 (shíqī)
- 朝代 (cháodài)
- 歲月/岁月 (suìyuè)
- (number of years): 積年/积年 (jīnián), (archaic) 年紀/年纪 (niánjì), 年數/年数 (niánshù)
- (time): 年數/年数 (niánshù), (archaic) 年紀/年纪 (niánjì), 時候/时候 (shíhou), 時間/时间 (shíjiān), (Hokkien, Teochew) 時陣/时阵 (sî-chūn), (Wu) 辰光 (zen kuaan (T3))
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
年代 • (nendai)
- age, era, period
- 1912, 島崎藤村, 北村透谷の短き一生:
- 明治年代に記憶すべき、大きな出来事の一つは、士族の階級の滅亡である。
- Meiji nendai ni kioku subeki, ōkina dekigoto no hitotsu wa, shizoku no kaikyū no metsubō de aru.
- If there's one event that one must remember about the Meiji era, it's the downfall of the samurai class.
- date
- 1924, 宮本百合子, 蠹魚:
- この本の印刷された年代で見ると、祖父は三十前後の壮年で、末弟が十七八であったらしい。
- Kono hon no insatsu sareta nendai de miru to, sofu wa san jū zengo no sōnen de, battei ga jū nana hachi de atta rashii.
- Looking at the date when this book was printed, it seems that my grandfather was around 30 and in the prime of his life, and his younger brother was 17 or 18.
- a decade in a century
Derived terms
- 年代記 (nendaiki): annals, chronicle, chronology
- 年代順 (nendaijun): chronological order
- 年代物 (nendaimono): antique
- 同年代 (dōnendai): the same generation, coeval
- 絶対年代 (zettai nendai): absolute age
- 相対年代 (sōtai nendai): relative age
- 地質年代 (chishitsu nendai): geological time
- 放射年代 (hōsha nendai): radiometric age
- 言語年代学 (gengo-nendaigaku): glottochronology
- 放射性炭素年代測定 (hōshaseitanso nendai sokutei): radiocarbon dating, carbon-14 dating
- 放射性炭素年代測定法 (hōshaseitanso nendai sokuteihō): radiocarbon dating
References
Korean
Noun
年代 • (nyeondae) (hangeul 년대)
- hanja form? of 년대 (“period of years such as a decade or century”)
Vietnamese
Noun
年代
- chữ Hán form of niên đại (“era; period; years; time”).