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百年

bǎi nián

2-character word

What 百年 means

1. hundred years; century
2. (fig.) a whole lifetime; a person's whole life

The characters in 百年

• 百bǎihundred; numerous; all kinds of
• 年niányear

Example sentences

• 五百年前是一家。
  Five hundred years ago it was a house.
• 一个世纪就是一百年。
  A century is one hundred years.
• 一百年叫做一个世纪。
  A hundred years is called a century.
• 一百年称为一个世纪。
  One hundred years is called a century.
• 一百年被叫做一个世纪。
  A hundred years is called a century.
• 一百年才出一个周立波。
  A person like Zhou Libo is only born once every hundred years.

Words starting with 百年

• 百年不遇bǎi nián bù yùonly met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)
• 百年之后bǎi nián zhī hòu(idiom; euphemism) after (sb's) death
• 百年大计bǎi nián dà jìa project of vital and lasting importance
• 百年好合bǎi nián hǎo hémay you live a long and happy life together (wedding greeting)
• 百年树人bǎi nián shù rén(idiom) it takes many years to raise children to be upstanding citizens

Words containing 百年

• 五百年前是一家wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiāfive hundred years ago we were the same family (saying)…
• 十年树木，百年树人shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people