三叠纪

三疊紀
Sāndiéjì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Triassic period
  2. 2 Triassic (geological period, ~252-201 million years ago)

Examples

Kǒnglóng zuìzǎo chūxiàn zài Sāndiéjì wǎnqī.
Dinosaurs first appeared in the late Triassic.
Sāndiéjì, Zhūluójì hé Báièjì hé chēng Zhōngshēngdài.
The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous together are called the Mesozoic Era.

Tips

memory
(sān) = three, (dié) = layered/stacked: the period was named in the 1830s after a distinctive three-layered rock sequence in Germany. The Mesozoic trio in Chinese: 三叠纪侏罗纪 (Jurassic) → 白垩纪 (Cretaceous).

Stroke Order

sān
dié