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第三纪

dì sān jì

3-character word Traditional 第三紀

What 第三纪 means

1. third period
2. tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)

The characters in 第三纪

• 第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六…
• 三sānthree; 3
• 纪jìorder; discipline; age

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