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世
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

generation

HSK 3 N3
Abstract →Space
shì
セイ、セ、ソウ
よ
세
Depicts three leaves on branches of a tree. Remnant from the top part of 枼. Based on the original meaning "leaf", now written as 葉. The meaning later shifted to "generation", since leaves pile up in hundreds much like a generation.
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Historical Evolution
Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
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Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
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Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Bronze
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
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Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Bronze Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Bronze
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Bronze Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Bronze
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Bronze Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
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Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Bronze Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Bronze
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Bronze Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
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Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Bronze
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
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Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
世
Regular
Modern
Chinese
世 [Shì]
surname Shi
世 [shì]
life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble
Japanese
世 、 代 よ 同音

noun

  1. world; society; public
  2. life; lifetime
  3. age; era; period; epoch; generation
  4. reign; rule
  5. the times
  6. Buddhism world (of existence)
世 せい 同音
  1. counter counter for generations
  2. n-suf geology epoch
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (3)
光が世にやって来た。
Light has come into the world.
新聞は世の動向を左右する。
Newspapers influence the current of time.
ジョージ３世は歴史家によって不当に悪し様に言われてきた。
George III has been unfairly maligned by historians.
Japanese Names
世 せあ
Sea unclassified name
世 せい
Sei female given name
世 せしめ
Seshime unclassified name
世 せぜ
Seze unclassified name
世 とき
Toki unclassified name
CHINESE WORDS (200)
世界 [shì​jiè] #301
world
世纪 [shì​jì] #2,099
century
世纪 [shì​jì] #2,099
century
全世界 [quán​shì​jiè] #2,173
worldwide
去世 [qù​shì] #1,710
to pass away
世上 [shì​shàng] #2,140
on earth
世界杯 [Shì​jiè​bēi] #14,450
World Cup
世人 [shì​rén] #6,835
people (in general)
过世 [guò​shì] #4,851
to die
过世 [guò​shì] #4,851
to die
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JAPANESE WORDS (200)
⭐ 世界 [せかい] #190
the world
⭐ 店 [みせ] #676
store
⭐ 世の中 [よのなか] #1,279
society
この世 [このよ] #1,716
this world
⭐ 世間 [せけん] #2,376
world
⭐ お世話になる [おせわになる] #2,387
to receive favor
⭐ 世 [よ] #2,424
world
⭐ 世界中 [せかいじゅう] #2,827
around the world
⭐ 世話 [せわ] #2,831
care
世話になる [せわになる] #4,521
to receive favor
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KOREAN WORDS (56)
세상 #1,408
world
만세 #1,899
future
세계 #2,020
world; universe
신세 #7,732
debt of gratitude
세기 #17,245
century
세대 #30,464
generation
중세 #39,074
the Middle Ages
일세 #39,912
lifetime; one life
구세군
Salvation Army
구세주
savior
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