年代 niándài▶ tahun-tahun

Stroke order

年代 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 年 — 6 strokes
• 代 — 5 strokes

Senses

1. a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
2. age
3. era
4. period

Related words

• 代替mengganti
• 代表wakil
• 古代Kuno
• 年纪Usia
• 时代zaman, era
• 现代modern

年代 is pronounced niándài and means “tahun-tahun”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 年代 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.