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公元

gōng yuán

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

公元 (gōng yuán) means "CE (Common Era)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 公元 means

1. CE (Common Era)
2. Christian Era
3. AD (Anno Domini)

The characters in 公元

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…

Example sentences

• 凯尔特人在公元前600年首先到来。
  Kǎi'ěrtèrén zài gōngyuánqián 600 nián shǒuxiān dàolái.
  First came the Celts in 600 B.C.
• 公元前七千年那段时间发生了很多重要的历史事件。
  Gōngyuánqián qī qiānnián nà duàn shíjiān fāshēng le hěn duōchóng yào de lìshǐshìjiàn.
  Many important historical events took place 7000 years B.C.
• 普遍认为佛教公元六七年在东汉明帝的统治时先来中国。
  Pǔbiàn rènwéi Fójiào gōngyuán liù qī nián zài Dōnghàn míng dì de tǒngzhì shí xiān lái Zhōngguó.
  It is generally believed that Buddhism first came to China in 67 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
• 道教是用老子的教导创立的，他是公元前六零四年在现代的河南省出生的圣贤。
  Dàojiào shì yòng lǎozi de jiàodǎo chuànglì de, tā shì gōngyuánqián liù líng sì nián zài xiàndài de Hénánshěng chūshēng de shèngxián.
  Taoism was founded on the teachings of Laozi, a sage born in 604 B.C. in present-day Henan Province.

Words starting with 公元

• 公元前gōng yuán qiánBCE (before the Common Era); BC (before Christ)

Words containing 公元

• 赵公元帅Zhào gōng yuán shuàiMarshal Zhao, aka Zhao Gongming or Zhao Xuantan, God of Wealth in the Chinese folk…

Sounds the same

Read gōng yuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 公园park (for public recreation)

Where 公元 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time & Temporal Expressions (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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