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现代

xiàn dài

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 現代

现代 (xiàn dài) means "modern; modern times". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 现代 means

1. modern times
2. modern age
3. modern era

Other readings

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

• Xiàn dàiHyundai, South Korean company

The characters in 现代

• 现xiànto appear; present; now
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Example sentences

• 他学习现代文学。
  He studies contemporary literature.
• 他喜欢现代音乐。
  He has a liking for modern music.
• 现代人太仰赖手机。
  Xiàndàirén tài yǎnglài shǒujī.
  People rely too much on phones these days.
• 现代的猫不吃老鼠。
  Modern cats don't eat rats.
• 汤姆欣赏现代艺术。
  Tom appreciates modern art.
• 现代的人想法不同。
  People today think differently.

Words starting with 现代

• 现代化xiàn dài huàmodernization
• 现代人xiàn dài rénmodern man; Homo sapiens
• 现代性xiàn dài xìngmodernity
• 现代派xiàn dài pàimodernist faction; modernists
• 现代史xiàn dài shǐmodern history
• 现代舞xiàn dài wǔmodern dance
• 现代集团Xiàn dài Jí tuánHyundai, the Korean corporation
• 现代形式xiàn dài xíng shìthe modern form
• 现代音乐xiàn dài yīn yuèmodern music; contemporary music
• 现代新儒家Xiàn dài Xīn Rú jiāModern New Confucianism; see also 新儒家
• 现代五项xiàn dài wǔ xiàngmodern pentathlon

Words containing 现代

• 四个现代化sì ge xiàn dài huàDeng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s…
• 工业现代化gōng yè xiàn dài huàmodernization of industry, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
• 后现代主义hòu xiàn dài zhǔ yìpostmodernism
• 国防现代化guó fáng xiàn dài huàmodernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
• 农业现代化nóng yè xiàn dài huàmodernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
• 近现代史jìn xiàn dài shǐmodern history and contemporary history
• 追寻现代中国Zhuī xún Xiàn dài Zhōng guóIn Search of Modern China by Jonathan D Spence 史景迁
• 科学技术现代化kē xué jì shù xiàn dài huàmodernization of science and technology, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations

Where 现代 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time sequence & ordering (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiàn dài correctly.
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