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时代

shí dài

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

时代 (shí dài) means "era; age; epoch". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 时代 means

1. age
2. era
3. epoch
4. period (in one's life)

Other readings

时代 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Shí dàiTime, US weekly news magazine

The characters in 时代

• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Example sentences

• 时代在变化。
  Times are changing.
• 革命迎来了新时代。
  Gémìng yíng lái le xīnshídài.
  The revolution ushered in a new era.
• 我们身处核能时代。
  Wǒmen shēnchǔ hénéng shídài.
  We are in the era of atomic energy.
• 他是时代杂志的记者。
  Tā shì shídài zázhì de jìzhě.
  He is a reporter for Time magazine.
• 我们身在原子能时代。
  Wǒmen shēn zài yuánzǐnéng shídài.
  We are in the era of atomic energy.
• 现在的时代是原子时代。
  The current era is the atomic era.

Words starting with 时代

• 时代广场Shí dài Guǎng chǎngTimes Square
• 时代华纳Shí dài Huá nàTime Warner Inc., US media company
• 时代曲shí dài qǔshidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese…

Words containing 时代

• 黄金时代huáng jīn shí dàigolden age
• 划时代huà shí dàiepoch-marking
• 石器时代Shí qì Shí dàiStone Age
• 同时代tóng shí dàicontemporary
• 新时代xīn shí dàinew age
• 日据时代Rì jù shí dàithe era of Japanese occupation
• 平安时代Píng ān shí dàiHeian period (794-1185), period of Japanese history
• 在位时代zài wèi shí dàireign (of a king, emperor etc)
• 信息时代xìn xī shí dàiinformation age
• 战国时代Zhàn guó Shí dàithe Warring States period (475-221 BC); Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
• 复兴时代Fù xīng Shí dàithe Renaissance
• 中石器时代Zhōng shí qì Shí dàiMesolithic Era
• 新石器时代Xīn shí qì Shí dàiNeolithic Era
• 冰河时代bīng hé shí dàiice age
• 封建时代fēng jiàn shí dàifeudal times
• 旧时代jiù shí dàiformer times; the olden days
• 黑暗时代Hēi àn Shí dàiDark Ages
• 旧石器时代Jiù shí qì Shí dàiPaleolithic Era
• 飞鸟时代Fēi niǎo Shí dàiAsuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD)
• 奈良时代Nài liáng Shí dàiNara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
• 春秋时代Chūn qiū Shí dàiSpring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
• 春秋战国时代Chūn qiū Zhàn guó Shí dàithe Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods…
• 青铜器时代Qīng tóng qì Shí dàithe Bronze Age; also written 青铜时代
• 刘宋时代Liú Sòng Shí dàiSong of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing

Where 时代 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Fashion, Era & Practicality (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 shí dài correctly.
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