二十世纪

二十世紀

èrshíshìjì

noun

Meanings

1 20th century
2 the twentieth century

Characters

world / generation

Examples

二十世纪是科技飞速发展的时代。

Èrshí shìjì shì kējì fēisù fāzhǎn de shídài.

The 20th century was an era of rapid technological development.

她出生于二十世纪八十年代。

Tā chūshēng yú èrshí shìjì bāshí niándài.

She was born in the 1980s (the eighties of the 20th century).

Tips

grammar

Decades within a century use NN年代: 二十世纪八十年代 = the 1980s. The pattern is 〔century〕世纪+〔decade〕年代, exactly mirroring "the eighties of the 20th century".

Stroke Order

二 èr

十 shí

世 shì

纪 jì