時代

See also: 时代

Chinese

 
o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
 
substitute; replace; generation; dynasty; geological era; era; age; period
trad. (時代)
simp. (时代)

Pronunciation


Noun

時代

  1. times; age; epoch; era; period of time (in history)
  2. period of time in one's life
    少年時代 / 少年时代   shàonián shídài   early youth
    學生時代 / 学生时代   xuéshēng shídài   student days
    一個時代產物 / 一个时代产物   yīge shídài de chǎnwù   a product of an era

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (時代):

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
だい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

時代 (hiragana じだい, rōmaji jidai)

  1. age, era, period (of time)
    • 1907, 夏目漱石, 野分:
      徳川政府 (とくがわせいふ)時代 (じだい)じゃあるまいし」と ()った。
      Tokugawa seifu no jidai ja aru mai shi” to itta.
      "This isn't the Tokugawa era, after all" he said.
  2. the times, spirit of the age
    • 1909, 夏目漱石, 永日小品:
      これも時代 (じだい)のせいだろう。
      Kore mo jidai no sei darō.
      It's another example of the times we live in.
  3. antiquity
  4. a time in one's life, one's days (in college etc.)
    • 1908, 夏目漱石, 坑夫:
       (せい) (ねん) (じょう)時代 (じだい)だ。
      Seinen wa jō no jidai da.
      Youth is a passionate time in one's life.

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

時代 (sidae) (hangeul 시대)

  1. Hanja form? of 시대 (age, era, period (of time)).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Noun

時代

  1. Hán tự form of thời đại, “age, era, period (of time)”
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