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年代

nián dài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个

年代 (nián dài) means "era, decade". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 年代 means

1. a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
2. age
3. era
4. period

The characters in 年代

• 年niányear
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Example sentences

• 这些废墟年代久远。
  Zhèxiē fèixū niándài jiǔyuǎn.
  These ruins are ancient.
• 这首歌在七十年代很流行。
  Zhè shǒu gē zài qīshíniándài hěn liúxíng.
  This song was popular in the 1970s.
• 这是三十年代以来最干旱的六月。
  Zhè shì sānshí niándài yǐlái zuì gānhàn de Liùyuè.
  This has been the driest six months in thirty years.
• 这年代已经没几个学生用铅笔了。
  Few students use pencils these days.
• 一九六零年代，美国兴起民权运动。
  Yī jiǔ liù líng niándài, Měiguó xīngqǐ mínquán yùndòng.
  The 1960s saw the emergence of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
• 科技在 1990 年代会有很大进步吧。
  Technology will make a lot of progress in the nineties.

Words starting with 年代

• 年代学nián dài xuéchronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
• 年代初nián dài chūbeginning of an age; beginning of a decade

Words containing 年代

• 地质年代表dì zhì nián dài biǎogeological time scale
• 七十年代qī shí nián dàithe seventies; the 1970s
• 六十年代liù shí nián dàithe sixties; the 1960s
• 都什么年代了dōu shén me nián dài leWhat decade are you living in?; That's so out-of-date!

Where 年代 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nián dài correctly.
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