公元前
gōng yuán qián
Pinyin

Definition

公元前
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gōng yuán qián
  1. BCE (before the Common Era)
  2. BC (before Christ)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

之前
zhī qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 prior to
  3. 3 ago
  4. 4 previously
  5. 5 beforehand
以前
yǐ qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 formerly
  3. 3 previous
  4. 4 ago
元
Yuán
  1. 1 surname Yuan
  2. 2 the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
公司
gōng sī
  1. 1 (business) company
  2. 2 company
  3. 3 firm
  4. 4 corporation
  5. 5 incorporated
  6. 6 classifier: 家 jiā
公园
gōng yuán
  1. 1 park (for public recreation)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 classifier: 座 zuò

Idioms (20)

一元复始
yī yuán fù shǐ
  1. 1 a new year begins (idiom)
一往无前
yī wǎng wú qián
  1. 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
  2. 2 to press forward
不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
bù gù qián hòu
  1. 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)

Sample Sentences

和平合作。公元前一百四十多年的中国汉代，一支从长安出发的和平使团，开始打通东方通往西方的道路，完成了“凿空之旅"这就是著名的张骞出使西域。
hépíng hézuò 。gōngyuánqián yī bǎi sì shí duō nián de Zhōngguó Hàndài ，yī Zhī cóng Chángān chūfā de hépíng shǐtuán ，kāishǐ dǎtōng Dōngfāng tōngwǎng Xīfāng de dàolù ，wánchéng le “Záokōngzhīlǚ "zhè jiùshì zhùmíng de ZhāngQiān chūshǐ Xīyù 。
Peaceful cooperation. In the Han Dynasty, before 140BC, a peaceful delegation set forth from Changan, and started to open up a road from the East to the West, completing a journey of pioneership, the renowned diplomatic mission to the Western regions undertaken by Zhang Qian.
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老公，你看，这个是公元前3500年的文物呢，没想到老祖宗还挺开放的嘛。
lǎogōng ，nǐ kàn ，zhè ge shì gōngyuánqián 3500 nián de wénwù ne ，méixiǎngdào lǎo zǔzōng hái tǐng kāifàng de ma 。
Look dear, this artifact is from 3500 B.C., I didn't know the ancestors were so open-minded.
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