一世紀 – vocab dash

一いっ世せい紀き

Meanings

Noun

1. century

Other spellings

１いっ世せい紀き

Kanji used

Pitch accent

いっせいき

Composed of

generation; lifetime; the age; the day; the first (e.g. Elizabeth I); issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)

Noun

period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan

Noun

Examples3

１いっ世せい紀きは１００年ねんです。

A century is one hundred years.

百ひゃく年ねんは一いっ世せい紀きと呼よばれる。

A hundred years is called a century.

一いっ世せい紀き半はん混こん乱らんが続つづいた後あとに、やっと国こく王おうの権けん威いが回かい復ふくされた。

Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.