年代

HSK 5#1430 by frequencyradical 干

nián dài["n"]

age; era; period; a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)

Measure word: 个

Examples

这些废墟年代久远。

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。

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

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.