年代

Chinese
year
 
substitute; replace; generation; dynasty; geological era; era; age; period
simp. and trad.
(年代)		 年 代

Pronunciation

Noun

年代

  1. age; era; period
  2. years; time
  3. 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. [Pinyin]
    In the 1970s, the Chinese government started to enact the One-Child Policy.

Derived terms

Japanese
Kanji in this term
年 代
ねん
Grade: 1		 だい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

年代 (hiragana ねんだい, rōmaji nendai)

  1. age, era, period
    • 1912, 島崎藤村, 北村透谷の短き一生:
      明 (めい)治 (じ)年代 (ねんだい)に記憶 (きおく)すべき、大 (おお)きな出来事 (できごと)の一 (ひと)つは、士族 (しぞく)の階級 (かいきゅう)の滅亡 (めつぼう)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.
  2. date
    • 1924, 宮本百合子, 蠹魚:
      この本 (ほん)の印刷 (いんさつ)された年代 (ねんだい)で見 (み)ると、祖 (そ)父 (ふ)は三 (さん)十 (じゅう)前 (ぜん)後 (ご)の壮 (そう)年 (ねん)で、末 (ばっ)弟 (てい)が十七八 (じゅうななはち)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.
  3. 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
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
年代

Noun

年代 • (nyeondae) (hangeul 년대)

  1. Hanja form? of 년대 (“period of years such as a decade or century”).

Vietnamese
Hán tự in this word
年代

Noun

年代

  1. Hán tự form of niên đại (“era; period; years; time”).
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