"史前" meaning in Chinese

See 史前 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /siː³⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Head templates: {{head|zh|adjective}} 史前
  1. (attributive) prehistoric Tags: attributive Derived forms: 史前史 (shǐqiánshǐ), 史前時代 (shǐqián shídài), 史前时代 (shǐqián shídài)
    Sense id: en-史前-zh-adj-rEUypnAY

Noun

IPA: /ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /siː³⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 史前
  1. (historiography) prehistory Synonyms: 史前史 (shǐqiánshǐ)
    Sense id: en-史前-zh-noun-gLallDTj Categories (other): Historiography, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 76 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91 Topics: historiography, history, human-sciences, sciences
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  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "史前",
  "trace": "started on line 18, detected on line 18"
}

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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </sup>",
  "path": [
    "史前"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
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  "title": "史前",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (ffdbfc3 and b9346a0). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.