近代
gan6 doi6jìn dài
English
- the not-very-distant past
- modern times, excluding recent decades
- (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)
- capitalist times (pre-1949)
- modern times; contemporary
粵語 — Cantonese
- 接近現時嘅歷史時代,各國定義唔同,例如中國將近代史定義為1840年第一次鴉片戰爭至1949年中華人民共和國成立之間嘅歷史
Examples
近代史
contemporary history
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk