Illustration: At a Japanese family’s dining table, grandparents, parents, a child and an overseas relative assemble a long chronological strip of annual calendars. Each annual section contains twelve small month grids, and family photographs attach to successive sections without any break or restart.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

西せい暦れき

seireki

Western calendar

Used for calendar years instead of Japanese era years. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 昭和しょうわ10年ねんは西暦せいれき1935年ねんです。

    The 10th year of Showa is 1935 in the Western calendar.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 西暦せいれきの日付ひづけは、グレゴリオ暦表示れきひょうじ。

    The Christian Era and dates are in the Gregorian calendar style.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. しかし使つかわれる年数字としすうじは西暦せいれきではなく、元号げんごうにもとづく。

    However, the number used for the year is not based on western calendar but the Japanese era name.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 西暦

  • 西west; SpainOnセイ・サイ・スKunにし
  • 暦calendar; almanacOnレキ・リャクKunこよみ

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