第三纪 dì sān jì

Tertiary period in geology

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
  2. 2. third period

Characters

Character Meaning
第 dì HSK 2
marker for ordinal numbers, like first, second
三 sān HSK 1
three; 3; surname San
纪 jì HSK 4
order; discipline; era