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世纪

shì jì

HSK 3 · word 1879 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

一百年叫做一个世纪。

yì bǎi nián jiào zuò yí gè shì jì

A hundred years is called a century.

Characters in 世纪

世 an age plus 纪, a chronicle period. A hundred-year chronicle, hence a century.

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