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百年

bǎinián

hundred years

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

hundred years

02

century

03

lifetime

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 百年 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 百年 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我很荣幸能来到开罗这座不朽的城市,并受到两所著名学府的招待。千载以来,艾资哈尔大学一直担任著伊斯兰教育的指路明灯;百年以来,开罗大学亦一直是埃及全国的发展泉源。wǒ hěn róng xìng néng lái dào kāi luó zhè zuò bù xiǔ de chéng shì, bìng shòu dào liǎng suǒ zhù míng xué fǔ de zhāo dài。 qiān zài yǐ lái, ài zī hā ěr dà xué yì zhí dān rèn zhù yī sī lán jiào yù de zhǐ lù míng dēng; bǎi nián yǐ lái, kāi luó dà xué yì yì zhí shì āi jí quán guó de fā zhǎn quán yuán。

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.

这家老字号茶楼据说是由广东师傅创立,传承至今已逾百年。zhè jiā lǎo zì hào chá lóu jù shuō shì yóu guǎng dōng shī fù chuàng lì, chuán chéng zhì jīn yǐ yú bǎi nián。

No published English translation for this sentence.

相信我,如果你去问那些百年人瑞,你可以得到以下的回应:健康的法门莫过於多接触人、多运动、吃些简单但营养充足的食物。xiāng xìn wǒ, rú guǒ nǐ qù wèn nà xiē bǎi nián rén ruì, nǐ kě yǐ dé dào yǐ xià de huí yìng: jiàn kāng de fǎ mén mò guò yú duō jiē chù rén、 duō yùn dòng、 chī xiē jiǎn dān dàn yíng yǎng chōng zú de shí wù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 百年.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 百年.

Directly before

  • 那些百年1
  • 逾百年1

Directly after

  • 百年人瑞1
  • 百年以来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 百年

What does 百年 mean in Chinese?

百年 (bǎinián) means hundred years.

How do you pronounce 百年?

百年 is pronounced bǎinián.

Is 百年 an HSK word?

百年 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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