Illustration: In a Japanese history museum, a child studies a life-size reconstruction of a medieval mounted warrior wearing boxy lamellar armor and carrying a long asymmetrical bow. Beside the figure, a detailed model shows a fortified warrior residence with earthen banks, wooden palisades and a simple gate.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

中ちゅう世せい

chuusei

Middle Ages, medieval times

Example sentences

  1. この壮大そうだいな大聖堂だいせいどうの建立こんりゅうは中世ちゅうせいにまでさかのぼる。

    This magnificent cathedral dates back to the Middle Ages.

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  2. 私わたしの専門せんもんは中世ちゅうせいヨーロッパ史しです。

    My major is medieval European history.

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  3. その起源きげんを突つき止とめるには中世ちゅうせいにさかのぼらなくてはいけない。

    We must go back to the Middle Ages to trace the origin.

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Kanji in 中世

  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる
  • 世generation; worldOnセイ・セ・ソウKunよ

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