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Meanings

chronicle, account, narrative, history, annals, geologic period

ES: crónica, normas, era

Common words

• 世紀せいきcentury
• 紀元きげんera
• 紀行きこうtraveller's journal, traveler's journal, travelogue
• 綱紀こうきlaw and order, (official) discipline
• 風紀ふうきpublic morals, discipline, rules governing social behavior
• 紀元前きげんぜんpre-era, BC, BCE
• 世紀末せいきまつend of a century (esp. 19th), fin-de-siècle
• 二十世紀にじっせいきtwentieth century

Example sentences

• 彼かれは１９世紀せいきに生うまれた。

  He was born in the 19th century.

  Nació en el siglo XIX.

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• その話はなしは１６世紀せいきまでさかのぼる。

  The story goes back to the sixteenth century.

  La historia se remonta al siglo dieciséis.

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