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
- —初世first generation; founder
- —蓋世matchless (heroism, spirit, resolve, etc.); peerless; overwhelming; world-dominating
- —世諺proverb; saying
- —盛世golden age; age of prosperity
- —世系descent; lineage; bloodline; family tree; genealogy
- —一世紀century
- —厭世家pessimist
- —厭世観pessimistic view of life; pessimism
- —厭世的sick of life; world-weary; pessimistic
- —沖積世alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
- —洪積世diluvial epoch
- —今世紀this century
- —処世術worldly wisdom; secret of success in life
- —新世紀new century
- —前世紀last century; previous century; ancient times; old times
- —創世期time of the creation; beginning of the world
- —創世記Genesis (book of the Bible)
- —中世史medieval history
- —当世風latest style (fashion, hairstyle, etc.); up-to-date style
- —当世流modern; contemporary