Kanji
N1 9 strokes Grade 5 freq #780

chronicle, account, narrative, history, annals

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

silk ito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

century
twentieth century
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
traveller's journal; traveler's journal
pre-era; BC
era
enforcement of official discipline; tightening of discipline
law and order; (official) discipline
last century; previous century
Tertiary period

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

Devonian period

Example sentences

Not only has eating with your fingers continued throughout the centuries, but some scholars believe that it may become popular again.

Science is the way to prepare for the 21st century.

It may safely be said that he is the greatest pianist of the twentieth century.

God only knows if I can live out the 20th century.