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当代

dāng dài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 當代

当代 (dāng dài) means "the contemporary era". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 当代 means

1. the present age
2. the contemporary era

The characters in 当代

• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Example sentences

• 为什么我是他们唯一抱怨的人? 他们就这样拿我作例子, 利用我当代罪羔羊。
  Wèishénme wǒ shì tāmen wéiyī bàoyuàn de rén? tāmen jiù zhèyàng ná wǒ zuò lìzi, lìyòng wǒ dāngdài zuì gāoyáng.
  Why am I the only one they complain about? They're just making an example out of me and using me as a scapegoat.

Words starting with 当代

• 当代史dāng dài shǐcontemporary history
• 当代新儒家Dāng dài Xīn Rú jiāContemporary New Confucianism; see 新儒家

Where 当代 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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