Illustration: Inside a Japanese local-history museum, a family stands in the newest section of a long chronological installation. Successive architectural bays contain objects from successive centuries, with older household tools receding behind them. Each bay has a grid of one hundred small annual compartments.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

今こん世せい紀き

konseiki

this century

Example sentences

  1. ナポレオンが今世紀こんせいきに生うまれていたら、何なにができただろう?

    Had Napoleon been born in this century, what could he have done?

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  2. 今世紀こんせいきの終おわりまでには、地球ちきゅうの気温きおんは劇的げきてきに上昇じょうしょうしているだろう。

    By the end of the century, the earth will have experienced a dramatic increase in temperature.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 核拡散かくかくさんは今世紀こんせいき最大さいだいの軍事上ぐんじじょうの脅威きょういである。

    Nuclear proliferation poses the most serious military threat in this century.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 今世紀

  • 今nowOnコン・キンKunいま
  • 世generation; worldOnセイ・セ・ソウKunよ
  • 紀chronicle; accountOnキ

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