年代(nián dài)

HSK 52 characters

a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)

Character breakdown

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Example sentences

How 年代 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.

  • 这些废墟年代久远。

    zhè xiē fèi xū nián dài jiǔ yuǎn

    These ruins are ancient.

  • 我们公司的技术已经达到了发达国家九十年代的水平。

    wǒ men gōng sī de jì shù yǐ jīng dá dào le fā dá guó jiā jiǔ shí nián dài de shuǐ píng

    Our company's technology has already reached the level of a developed country in the 1990s.

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