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世 kanji
generation, world, society, public
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
セイセソウ
Kun readings
よ
Variant forms
丗卋Words with 世
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3世紀Popularcentury; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
- N2中世PopularMiddle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
- —近世Popularrecent past; recent times; early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan)
- —後世Popularposterity; future generations; future life
- —二世Popularnisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); person of Japanese parentage with non-Japanese citizenship; the second (e.g. Edward II); son
- —一世Populargeneration; lifetime; the age; the day; the first (e.g. Elizabeth I); issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)
- —救世軍PopularSalvation Army
- —救世主Popularsaviour; savior; messiah; Messiah; Jesus Christ
- —世紀末Popularend of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction); apocalypse
- —二十世紀Populartwentieth century; Nijisseiki pear (variety of nashi); Nijusseiki pear
- —世counter for generations; epoch
- —永世eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence; lifetime title holder (in shogi, go, etc.)
- —厭世weariness with life; world-weariness; pessimism
- —棄世death
- —希世rare; uncommon
- —救世salvation (of the world); saving the world
- —経世administration; government; conduct of state affairs
- —三世three generations; third generation immigrant; sansei; the third (e.g. Henry III)
- —人世this world; life
- —衰世this decadent world