時代

じだい
era

Reading

Readingじだい
N4 VocabJLPT N4
Kanji時代

Meanings

  1. era
  1. periodn.
  2. epoch
  3. age
  4. the timesn.
  5. those days
  6. oldnessn.
  7. ancientness
  8. antiquity
  9. antiquen.abbr.
  10. period piece

Synonyms

世代年代

Homonyms

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Same reading (じだい)
次代 · the next era

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

かような世界も歴史的なものとしてそれぞれの時代に個別的であるとすれば、
かようなせかいもれきしてきなものとしてそれぞれのじだいにこべつてきであるとすれば、If such a world is also historical and individual in each era,
青春時代、清掃員が清掃して清々しい
せいしゅんじだい、せいそういんがせいそうしてすがすがしいThe youth years, with the custodian cleaning and making things refreshing.
太陽も花も楽しめないし、私たちの子供時代も楽しめないのよ。
たいようもはなもたのしめないし、わたしたちのこどもじだいもたのしめないのよ。We can't enjoy the sun or the flowers, nor our childhood either.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 時代

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked