三叠纪

三疊紀

Sāndiéjì

noun

Meanings

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

Characters

layered; folded

Examples

HSK 3

三叠纪、侏罗纪和白垩纪合称中生代。

Sāndiéjì, Zhūluójì hé Bái'èjì hé chēng Zhōng shēng dài.

The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous together are called the Mesozoic Era.

HSK 7-9

恐龙最早出现在三叠纪晚期。

Kǒnglóng zuì zǎo chūxiàn zài Sāndiéjì wǎnqī.

Dinosaurs first appeared in the late Triassic.

Tips

memory

三 (sān) = three, 叠 (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

三 sān

叠 dié

纪 jì