石炭紀

See also: 石炭纪

Chinese

		coal	discipline; age; era discipline; age; era; period; order; record
trad. (石炭紀)		石炭	紀
simp. (石炭纪)		石炭	纪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Shítànjì

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄊㄢˋ ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶ taan³ gei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Shítànjì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄊㄢˋ ㄐㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Shíhtànjì
    • Wade–Giles: Shih²-tʻan⁴-chi⁴
    • Yale: Shŕ-tàn-jì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyrtannjih
    • Palladius: Шитаньцзи (Šitanʹczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ tʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sek⁶ taan³ gei³
    • Yale: sehk taan gei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹ taan³ gei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶ tan³ géi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚² tʰaːn³³ kei̯³³/

Proper noun

1. the Carboniferous period

See also

• 泥盆紀／泥盆纪 (Nípén Jì)
• 二疊紀／二叠纪 (Èrdié Jì)
• 古生代 (Gǔshēng Dài)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
石	炭	紀
せき Grade: 1	たん Grade: 3	き Grade: 5
kan’on

Etymology

石炭 (sekitan, “coal”) +‎ 紀 (-ki, “period”)

Proper noun

石(せき)炭(たん)紀(き) • (Sekitanki) 

1. the Carboniferous
   • 1987 May 1 [1987 March 20], Fujiko Fujio, “創世日記 [Diary of Genesis]”, in みどりの守り神 [Green Guardian God] (藤子不二雄 ＳＦ全短編; 2), 2nd edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, →ISBN, 第一章, page 23:

     八(はち)月(がつ)十(じゅう)九(く)日(にち)三(さん)億(おく)年(ねん)前(まえ)　石(せき)炭(たん)紀(き)の大(だい)森(しん)林(りん)　恐(きょう)竜(りゅう)時(じ)代(だい)はもう近(ちか)い

     Hachigatsu jūkunichi san'okunen mae Sekitanki no daishinrin Kyōryū jidai wa mō chikai

     August 19, 300 million years ago. Huge Carboniferous forests. The age of the dinosaurs is drawing near.

   • 1987 May 1 [1987 March 20], Fujiko Fujio, “うちの石炭紀 [My Carboniferous]”, in みどりの守り神 [Green Guardian God] (藤子不二雄 ＳＦ全短編; 2), 2nd edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, →ISBN, 第三章, page 576:

     三(さん)億(おく)年(ねん)前(まえ)古(こ)生(せい)代(だい)石(せき)炭(たん)紀(き)の地(ち)球(きゅう)にわれわれの先(せん)祖(ぞ)は現(あらわ)れた人(じん)類(るい)の歴(れき)史(し)を二(に)百(ひゃく)五(ご)十(じゅう)万(まん)年(ねん)とすればそのざっと百(ひゃく)二(に)十(じゅう)倍(ばい)の昔(むかし)だ

     San'okunen mae Koseidai Sekitanki no Chikyū ni wareware no senzo wa arawareta Jinrui no rekishi o nihyakugojū-mannen to sureba Sono zatto hyakunijūbai no mukashi da

     Our ancestors emerged on this Earth 300 million years ago, in the Paleozoic Carboniferous. Given that human history has only spanned 2.5 million years, our species is about 120 times older.

See also

• 古(こ)生(せい)代(だい) (Koseidai)
• デボン紀(き) (Debon-ki)
• ペルム紀(き) (Perumu-ki)