Kanji1 / 5
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
- —世局world developments
- —世子heir; successor
- —世伝hereditary (estates)
- —世途path of life; the world
- —世変change of times
- —前世antiquity; the previous era
- —創世creation of the world
- —伝世transmission from generation to generation
- —渡世making one's way in the world; (making a) living; (earning a) livelihood; business; trade; occupation
- —当世present-day; nowadays
- —百世long era; ages; eternity
- —万世all ages; eternity
- —憂世worrying about world conditions
- —歴世successive generations; successive emperors
- —奕世many generations
- —上世antiquity; ancient times
- —世故worldly affairs
- —遁世seclusion from the world; monastic seclusion
- —曠世unparalleled; unparallelled; matchless
- —絶世peerless; matchless; unrivaled; unrivalled; unequaled; unequalled; unsurpassed