Chinese symbol for “eocene”

始新纪

shǐ xīn jì

Traditional: 始新紀

Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for eocene is 始新纪 (shǐ xīn jì), defined as: Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago).

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Characters and stroke order

始 shǐ

to begin, to start; beginning

radical 38 ⼥ · 8 strokes

新 xīn

new, recent, fresh, modern

radical 69 ⽄ · 13 strokes

纪 jì

discipline, age; period, era; record, annal

radical 120 ⽷ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

紀 jì

Related words

Other words that share a character with 始新纪.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
开始 (開始)	kāi shǐ	to begin; to start; beginning; start
始终 (始終)	shǐ zhōng	from beginning to end; all along
原始	yuán shǐ	first; original
创始人 (創始人)	chuàng shǐ rén	creator; founder; initiator
始建	shǐ jiàn	to start building
创始 (創始)	chuàng shǐ	to initiate; to found
新闻 (新聞)	xīn wén	news; 条 (tiáo)
重新	chóng xīn	again; once more; re-
世纪 (世紀)	shì jì	century

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.