Illustration: At a Japanese forestry museum, a guide kneels beside a large polished tree cross-section mounted low enough for children to inspect. The trunk has one hundred annual growth rings, with small wooden pegs marking every tenth ring along one radius.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

世せい紀き

seiki

century

Example sentences

彼かれは１９世紀せいきに生うまれた。
He was born in the 19th century.
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２１世紀せいきは２００１年ねんに始はじまる。
The twenty-first century begins in 2001.
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彼かれの生涯しょうがいはほぼ１世紀せいきにわたった。
His life spanned nearly a century.
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Kanji in 世紀

世generation; worldOnセイ・セ・ソウKunよ
紀chronicle; accountOnキ

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