划时代
huàshídài
epoch-making; era-defining
Characters in this word
时 shí
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
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
- 这项发现被认为具有划时代意义，因为它改变了人们对生命起源的理解。 Zhè xiàng fāxiàn bèi rènwéi jùyǒu huàshídài yìyì, yīnwèi tā gǎibiàn le rénmen duì shēngmìng qǐyuán de lǐjiě. This discovery is regarded as epoch-making because it changed people's understanding of the origins of life.
- 电灯的发明是一件划时代的大事。 Diàndēng de fāmíng shì yí jiàn huàshídài de dàshì. The invention of the electric light was an epoch-making event.
- 这部电影在技术上有划时代的突破。 Zhè bù diànyǐng zài jìshù shang yǒu huàshídài de tūpò. This film made an epoch-making technical breakthrough.
Related words
- 计划 jìhuà plan
- 划船 huáchuán to row a boat
- 划 huá to row
- 划 huà to draw a line
- 规划 guīhuà to plan
- 划分 huàfēn to divide
- 策划 cèhuà to plan, to plot
- 筹划 chóuhuà to plan; to prepare
- 划不来 huábulái not worth it; uneconomical
- 划得来 huádelái worth it; economical
- 划算 huásuàn cost-effective; worth it
- 谋划 móuhuà to plan; to scheme