Chinese symbol for “tertiary”
第三纪
dì sān jì
Traditional: 第三紀
third period; tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tertiary is 第三纪 (dì sān jì), defined as: third period; tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 第三纪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 第一 | dì yī | first; most important; primary; foremost |
| 第一次 | dì yī cì | the first time; for the first time |
| 第二 | dì èr | second; number two |
| 第二次 | dì èr cì | the second time; the second occurrence |
| 第二天 | dì èr tiān | next day; the morrow |
| 第五 | dì wǔ | fifth |
| 三星 | sān xīng | three major stars of the Three Stars 参宿 (Shēn xiù) Chinese constellation; the belt of Orion |
| 三次 | sān cì | third; three times |
| 世纪 (世紀) | shì jì | century |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tertiary”.
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.