世纪 (shìjì) means Century. Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这座桥有一个 世纪 的历史。
Zhè zuò qiáo yǒu yí ge shìjì de lìshǐ.
This bridge has a century of history.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 世纪
二十一 世纪 的变化非常大。
Èrshíyī shìjì de biànhuà fēicháng dà.
The changes in the twenty-first century are enormous.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 世纪
这座桥修建于上 世纪 。
Zhè zuò qiáo xiūjiàn yú shàng shìjì.
This bridge was built in the last century.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 修建
这个共和国成立于上 世纪 。
Zhège gònghéguó chénglì yú shàng shìjì.
This republic was founded in the last century.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 共和国
这栋楼建于上 世纪 五十年代。
Zhè dòng lóu jiàn yú shàng shìjì wǔshí niándài.
This building was put up in the nineteen-fifties.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 栋
这项技术诞生于上 世纪 八十年代。
Zhè xiàng jìshù dànshēng yú shàng shìjì bāshí niándài.
This technology was born in the nineteen-eighties.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 诞生
人类第一次进入太空是在上 世纪 。
Rénlèi dì yī cì jìnrù tàikōng shì zài shàng shìjì.
Humans first entered space in the last century.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 太空
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How is 世纪 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 世纪 (shìjì, "Century"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 世纪 an HSK word?
Yes — 世纪 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
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