年代
nián​dài HSK3

age or era

年代 nián​dài
age or era noun
a distinct period in history; age; times

那是一个动荡的年代。

nà shì yī gè dòng​dàng de nián​dài.

That was a turbulent era.

decade noun
a decade of a century (e.g. the sixties)

这首歌在九十年代非常流行。

zhè shǒu gē zài jiǔ​shí​nián​dài fēi​cháng liú​xíng.

This song was very popular in the nineties.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
48.0 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
110.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Classifier

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)