It was during the ice age that the saber-toothed tiger became extinct.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
冰河时期
ice age
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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ice age
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 冰河时期 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 冰河时期 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A remote Iranian desert city, Ice Age-era caves in Germany and a stone wharf in Brazil built for arriving African slave ships are three new additions to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 冰河时期.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 冰河时期.
Directly before
- 在冰河时期1
- 的冰河时期1
Directly after
- 冰河时期绝种1
- 冰河时期洞穴1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 冰河时期
What does 冰河时期 mean in Chinese?
冰河时期 (bīnghéshíqī) means ice age.
How do you pronounce 冰河时期?
冰河时期 is pronounced bīnghéshíqī.
Is 冰河时期 an HSK word?
冰河时期 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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