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近代

jìn dài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

近代 (jìn dài) means "modern times (since ~19th c.)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 近代 means

1. the not-very-distant past
2. modern times, excluding recent decades
3. (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)
4. capitalist times (pre-1949)

The characters in 近代

• 近jìnnear; close to; approximately
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Words starting with 近代

• 近代史jìn dài shǐmodern history…

Sounds the same

Read jìn dài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 晋代Jin Dynasty (265-420)

Where 近代 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Remaining & Varied Terms (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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