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a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
modern times / modern age / modern era
HSK 3
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
ancient times
HSK 3
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to substitute / to act on behalf of others / to replace / generation / dynasty / age / period / (historical) era / (geological) eon
HSK 3
the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
HSK 4
to substitute for / to replace / to supersede
HSK 4
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
generation
HSK 6
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
the next generation
HSK 7-9
epoch-marking
HSK 7-9
Hyundai, South Korean company
Time, US weekly news magazine
to transition to a new dynasty or regime / to replace an older product with an upgraded, new-generation one
final generation
Tang dynasty (618-907)
Bandai toy company
successive generations / successive dynasties / past dynasties
the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Song dynasty (960-1279)
Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC)
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
offspring / child's generation
the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
golden age
from generation to generation / generation after generation
peerless / unmatched in his generation / incomparable (talent, beauty)
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
Qin dynasty (221-207 BC), founded by the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇, the first dynasty to rule the whole of China
previous generation
for many generations
Jin Dynasty (265-420)
magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent
Sui dynasty (581-617)
periodization (of history)
metonymy
to carry on one's ancestral line
Paleozoic, geological era 545-250m years ago, covering Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, Ordovician 奧陶紀|奥陶纪, Silurian 志留紀|志留纪, Devonian 泥盆紀|泥盆纪, Carboniferous 石炭紀|石炭纪, Permian 二疊紀|二叠纪
parent's generation / previous generation
to pass to the next generation
throughout the ages
secondary / twice in the year (of generations of insects, harvests etc)
unrivalled / without peer in this generation
sundae (loanword)
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
(computing, math.) to iterate / (literary) to alternate
Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
Mesolithic Era
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s / see also 窮二代|穷二代
Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
the sixties / the 1960s
to be getting worse with each generation
new age
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC)
Asuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD)
the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
to refer to / to be used in place of
new generation
substitution / replacing former general / change of leader
Stone Age
former times / the olden days
Paleolithic Era
the seventies; the 1970s
Mesozoic (geological era 250-65m years ago, covering Triassic 三疊紀|三叠纪, Jurassic 侏羅紀|侏罗纪 and Cretaceous 白堊紀|白垩纪)
information age
Proterozoic (geological era 2500-540m years ago)
the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between Han and Tang
ice age
Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
Generation Y / Millennial Generation
contemporary
reign (of a king, emperor etc)
Archaeozoic (geological era before 2500m years ago)
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代
to be blessed with rare and radiant beauty (idiom)
wealth never survives three generations (idiom)
feudal times
Heian period (794-1185), period of Japanese history
the Renaissance
Neolithic Era
the era of Japanese occupation
children of celebrities
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
reform and renewal / generational change
second generation only child
(Tw) class representative / class president
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty

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