CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

距今

jùjīn

before the present

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

before the present

(a long period) ago

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

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调查人员的结论基於对取自东非大裂谷坦噶尼喀湖底部的一块距今 6 万年的沉积物岩芯的分析。坦噶尼喀湖位於东非大裂谷，与蒲隆地、刚果民主共和国、坦尚尼亚和尚比亚接壤，是世界第二深的淡水湖。diào chá rén yuán de jié lùn jī yú duì qǔ zì dōng fēi dà liè gǔ tǎn gá ní kā hú dǐ bù de yī kuài jù jīn 6 wàn nián de chén jī wù yán xìn de fēn xī。 tǎn gá ní kā hú wèi yú dōng fēi dà liè gǔ， yǔ pú lóng dì、 gāng guǒ mín zhǔ gòng hé guó、 tǎn shàng ní yà hé shàng bǐ yà jiē rǎng， shì shì jiè dì èr shēn de dàn shuǐ hú。

Investigators base their conclusion on an analysis of a 60,000-year-old sediment core extracted from the bottom Lake Tanganyika in the East African Rift Valley, which borders Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. The lake is the world's second deepest fresh water lake.

新石器时代距今一万两千年至四千年, 分为初期、早期、中期、晚期四段。xīn shí qì shí dài jù jīn yī wàn liǎng qiān nián zhì sì qiān nián, fēn wéi chū qī、 zǎo qī、 zhōng qī、 wǎn qī sì duàn。

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新石器时代距今1.2万年至4000年, 分为初期、早期、中期、晚期四段。xīn shí qì shí dài jù jīn 1.2 wàn nián zhì 4000 nián, fēn wéi chū qī、 zǎo qī、 zhōng qī、 wǎn qī sì duàn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 距今.

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

Directly before

时代距今2
一块距今1

Directly after

距今一万两千1

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 距今

What does 距今 mean in Chinese?

距今 (jùjīn) means before the present.

How do you pronounce 距今?

距今 is pronounced jùjīn.

Is 距今 an HSK word?

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

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