石炭紀

See also: 石炭纪

Chinese

		coal	discipline; age; era discipline; age; era; period; order; record
trad. (石炭紀)		石炭	紀
simp. (石炭纪)		石炭	纪

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Shítànjì

(Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄊㄢˋ ㄐㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶ taan³ gei³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Shítànjì
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄊㄢˋ ㄐㄧˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shytannjih
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ tʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sek⁶ taan³ gei³
  - Yale: sehk taan gei
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹ taan³ gei³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶ tan³ géi³
  - IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚² tʰäːn³³ kei̯³³/

Proper noun

石炭紀

the Carboniferous period

See also

泥盆紀／泥盆纪 (Nípénjì)
二疊紀／二叠纪 (Èrdiéjì)
古生代 (Gǔshēngdài)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
石	炭	紀
せき Grade: 1	たん Grade: 3	き Grade: 4
kan’on

Etymology

石炭 (sekitan, “coal”) +‎ 紀 (-ki, “period”)

Pronunciation

On’yomi: Kan’on
- (Tokyo) せきたんき [sèkítáꜜǹkì] (Nakadaka – [3])
- IPA^(key): [se̞kʲi̥tã̠ŋʲkʲi]

Proper noun

石炭紀 (hiragana せきたんき, rōmaji Sekitanki)

the Carboniferous
- 1987 May 1 [Mar 20 1987], Fujiko Fujio, “創世日記 [Diary of Genesis]”, in みどりの守り神 [Green Guardian God] (藤子不二雄ＳＦ全短編; 2), volume 2 (fiction), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, →ISBN, 第一章, page 23:
  八月十九日三億年前　石炭紀の大森林　恐竜時代はもう近い
  Hachigatsu jūkunichi san’okunen mae Sekitanki no daishinrin Kyōryū jidai wa mō chikai
  August 19, 300 million years ago. Huge Carboniferous forests. The age of the dinosaurs is drawing near.
- 1987 May 1 [Mar 20 1987], Fujiko Fujio, “うちの石炭紀 [My Carboniferous]”, in みどりの守り神 [Green Guardian God] (藤子不二雄ＳＦ全短編; 2), volume 2 (fiction), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, →ISBN, 第三章, page 576:
  三億年前古生代石炭紀の地球にわれわれの先祖は現れた人類の歴史を二百五十万年とすればそのざっと百二十倍の昔だ
  San’okunen mae Koseidai Sekitanki no Chikyū ni wareware no senzo wa arawareta Jinrui no rekishi o nihyaku gojūmannen to sureba Sono zatto hyakunijūbai no mukashi da
  Our ancestors emerged on this Earth 300 million years ago, in the Paleozoic Carboniferous. Given that human history has only spanned 2.5 million years, our species is about 120 times older.

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