世紀 – Vocabulary details

世せい紀き

Noun

1. century

2. era

Adjective (の)

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

world

era

せ

いき

counter for generations; epoch

period; Nihon-shoki

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

half century

last century; ancient times

この寺じ院いんは七なな世せい紀きからのものです。

This temple dates from the 7th century.

彼かれの作さく品ひんは何なん世せい紀き間かんも残のこるだろう。

His works will endure for centuries.

世せい紀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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