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HSK
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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
generation
HSK 6
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  *代* | 代* | *代
to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon
HSK 3
to substitute for / to replace / to supersede
HSK 4
ancient times
HSK 3
age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
for many generations / generation / era / age
HSK 7-9
modern times / modern age / modern era
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
the next generation
HSK 7-9
the present age / the contemporary era
HSK 5
the seventies; the 1970s
the sixties / the 1960s
Tang dynasty (618–907)
second generation
epoch-marking
HSK 7-9
to replace / to supersede / to supplant / (chemistry) substitution
HSK 7-9
to be getting worse with each generation
metonymy
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)
the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)
to refer to / to be used in place of
to transition to a new dynasty or regime
information age
the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)
new generation
reform and renewal / generational change
wealth never survives three generations (idiom)
dynasty / reign (of a king)
HSK 7-9
Neolithic Era
periodization (of history)
(computing, math.) to iterate / (literary) to alternate
descendant; progeny / posterity; later ages; later generations
HSK 7-9
offspring / child's generation
to carry on one's ancestral line
Cenozoic (geological era covering the last 65m years)
new generation
Dark Ages
Heian period (794-1185), period of Japanese history
Song dynasty (960-1279)
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods / Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC)
to transition to a new dynasty or regime / to replace an older product with an upgraded, new-generation one
Mesolithic Era
the prehistoric Shang dynasty (c. 16th-11th century BC)
for many generations
final generation
children of officials / word created by analogy with 富二代
Generation Y / Millennial Generation
Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 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
the era of Japanese occupation
ice age
throughout the ages
(Tw) class representative / class president
Stone Age
feudal times
Paleolithic Era
Phanerozoic, geological eon lasting since the Cambrian 寒武紀|寒武纪, c. 540m year ago
Time, US weekly news magazine
the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
Bandai toy company
Hyundai, South Korean company
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
new age
parent's generation / previous generation
Sui dynasty (581-617)
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s / see also 窮二代|穷二代
successive generations / successive dynasties / past dynasties
contemporary
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
from generation to generation / generation after generation
Zhou dynasty (1046-221 BC)
the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
previous generation
Archaeozoic (geological era before 2500m years ago)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English author
Jin Dynasty (265-420)
second generation only child
the Six Dynasties period (222-589) between Han and Tang
Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC
magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent
to pass to the next generation
Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
reign (of a king, emperor etc)
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真 people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
a changeover of personnel / a new shift / (lit.) replacement for soldier on leave for the melon-picking season
former times / the olden days
the Bronze Age / also written 青銅時代|青铜时代
to be blessed with rare and radiant beauty (idiom)
unrivalled / without peer in this generation
Asuka Period in Japanese history (538-710 AD)
Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
the Renaissance
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代
Nara period (710-794) in early Japanese history
(loanword) sundae
Proterozoic (geological era 2500-540m years ago)
golden age

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