"Epoch" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 时代 | shí dài | age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL:個|个[ge4] |   |
| 年头 | nián tóu | start of the year / whole year / a particular year / period / days / epoch / a year's harvest | |
| 纪元 | jì yuán | calendar era / epoch | |
| 世 |  shì | life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble | |
| 历元 | lì yuán | epoch | |
| 参考历元 | reference epoch / epoch date / epoch | | |
| 新纪元 | xīn jì yuán | new era / new epoch | |
| 大纪元 | Dà Jì yuán | Epoch Times, US newspaper | |
| 冰期 | bīng qī | glacial epoch / ice age | |
| 全新纪 | quán xīn jì | (geology) the Holocene Epoch | |
| 全新世 | Quán xīn shì | (geology) the Holocene Epoch | |
| 上新世 | Shàng xīn shì | Pliocene (geological epoch from 5m-2m years ago) | |
| 中新世 | Zhōng xīn shì | Miocene (geological epoch from 24m-5m years ago) | |
| 印支期 | Yìn Zhī qī | Indo-Chinese epoch (geology) / Indosinian orogeny | |
| 古新世 | Gǔ xīn shì | Palaeocene (geological epoch from 65m-55m years ago) | |
| 大纪元时报 | Dà Jì yuán shí bào | Epoch Times, US newspaper | |
| 始新世 | Shǐ xīn shì | Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago) | |
| 始新纪 | shǐ xīn jì | Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago) | |
| 更新世 | Gēng xīn shì | Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages) | |
| 渐新世 | Jiàn xīn shì | Oligocene (geological epoch from 34m-24m years ago) | |
