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
- —治世rule; reign; peaceful times
- —乱世troubled times; turbulent times
- —辞世passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
- —早世dying young; early death
- —処世making one's way through life; conduct of one's life
- —累世successive generations
- —在世being alive; living
- —慨世deploring the course of public events
- —隔世separation of ages; being of a different age
- —時世the times; an age; a day and age
- —警世warning (to society)
- —阿世timeserving
- —叔世age of decline
- —世務worldly affairs; public affairs
- —済世saving the world; promoting national welfare
- —世運destiny of the world; course of events in the world
- —世路path of life; the world
- —四世four generations; fourth generation immigrant; yonsei; the fourth (e.g. George IV)
- —五世five generations; fifth generation immigrant; gosei; the fifth (e.g. George V)
- —季世degenerate age; corrupt world