せい
Meanings
Noun
1. century
2. era
Adjective (の)
3. of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
Kanji used
world
era
Pitch accent
いき
Top 5900
Composed of
counter for generations; epoch
period; Nihon-shoki
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
last century; ancient times
quarter of a century
Examples (34 in total)
This temple dates from the 7th century.
His works will endure for centuries.
At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.