Chinese symbol for “bce”
公元前
gōng yuán qián
BCE (before the Common Era); BC (before Christ)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bce is 公元前 (gōng yuán qián), defined as: BCE (before the Common Era); BC (before Christ).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bce”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 公元前.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 公民 | gōng mín | citizen |
| 公布 (公佈) | gōng bù | variant of 公布 (gōng bù) |
| 公里 | gōng lǐ | kilometer |
| 美元 | měi yuán | American dollar; US dollar |
| 多元 | duō yuán | poly-; multi- |
| 元素 | yuán sù | element (key component of sth); (chemistry) element |
| 目前 | mù qián | at the present time; currently |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bce”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.