第三纪 in English di4 san1 ji4 Meaning

Meanings

  • third period
  • tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)

Simplified Characters

第 三 纪

Traditional Characters

第 三 紀

Pinyin

di4 san1 ji4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

第di4(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc) 三san1surname San 纪ji4surname Ji