紀

Meaning

紀 centers on recording events in an ordered way: a chronicle, history, or narrative account. The geologic period sense extends this idea to a named span of time in Earth's history.

• 世紀せいき
  N3

  century

• 紀き

  period

• 紀元前きげんぜん

  pre-era; BC; BCE

• 紀行きこう

  traveller's journal; traveler's journal; travelogue

• 風紀ふうき

  public morals; discipline; rules governing social behavior

• 今世紀こんせいき
  N2

  this century

• 日本書紀にほんしょき

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

• 紀伊きい

  Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)

• 四半世紀しはんせいき

  quarter of a century

• 紀元きげん
  N1

  era

• 紀伊國屋きのくにや

  Kinokuniya

• 紀要きよう

  bulletin; memoirs

• 記紀きき

  the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (earliest historical records of Japan)

• ジュラ紀ジュラき

  Jurassic (period)

• 皇紀こうき

  Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jimmu's reign in 660 BCE

• 紀勢本線きせいほんせん

  Kisei Main Line (Wakayama-Mie railway)

• 綱紀こうき

  law and order; (official) discipline

• 紀伝きでん

  biography

• 紀元節きげんせつ

  Empire Day (February 11th; national holiday held from 1872 to 1948)

• 千年紀せんねんき

  millennium

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