セイキ – Vocabulary details

セイキ

Meanings

Noun

1. century

2. era

Adjective (の)

3. of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

Alt. forms

世せい紀き

99%

セイキ

Pitch accent

セ

イキ

Composed of

セイ

counter for generations; epoch

キ

period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)

Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

セイキマツ

end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction); apocalypse

ハンセイキ

half century

ゼンセイキ

last century; previous century; ancient times; old times

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Examples (27 in total)

１９せいきセイキには産さん業ぎょう革かく命めいが起おこった。

The 19th century saw the Industrial Revolution.

あなたは、20せいきセイキに生うまれましたか？それとも21せいきセイキですか？

Were you born in the 20th century or in the 21st?

この教きょう会かいは１２せいきセイキからのものです。

This church dates from the 12th century.