せいき – Vocabulary details

せいき

Noun

1. century

2. era

Adjective (の)

3. of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

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いき

counter for generations; epoch

period; Nihon-shoki

end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle

last century; ancient times

half century

この寺じ院いんは七ななせいきからのものです。

This temple dates from the 7th century.

彼かれの作さく品ひんは何なんせいき間かんも残のこるだろう。

His works will endure for centuries.

せいきの変かわり目めに子こ供どもたちはまだ工こう場じょうで働はたらいていた。

At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.

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