当 dāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- ⺌ — small
- Made of
- ⺌ small 彐 snout
当代
dāngdài
modern; contemporary
Characters in this word
代 dài
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 弋 to catch, to arrest
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 当代艺术很美。 Dāngdài yìshù hěn měi. Modern art is very beautiful.
- 他研究当代文学。 Tā yánjiū dāngdài wénxué. He studies modern literature.
- 这是当代生活。 Zhè shì dāngdài shēnghuó. This is modern life.
Related words
- 当 dāng to work as; to be
- 当时 dāngshí at that time
- 当初 dāngchū at first; back then
- 当地 dāngdì local
- 当然 dāngrán of course
- 当中 dāngzhōng among; in the middle of
- 相当 xiāngdāng quite; fairly
- 应当 yīngdāng should; ought to
- 不敢当 bùgǎndāng I do not deserve it (modest reply)
- 当场 dāngchǎng on the spot; immediately
- 当年 dāngnián back then
- 当前 dāngqián current; present