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
- —人新世Anthropocene
- —準二世quasi-nisei (Japanese-born person who moved abroad when young)
- —順世派Charvaka (ancient school of Indian materialism); Lokayata
- —ご時世the times; the world; society
- —永世中立permanent neutrality
- —厭世主義pessimism
- —曲学阿世prostitution of learning; twisting the truth and truckling to the times
- —出家遁世monastic seclusion
- —当世向きtrendy
- —万世一系unbroken imperial line
- —万世不易eternity; perpetuity
- —隔世遺伝atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; skipping a generation; reversion to ancestral type
- —一世の雄greatest hero (mastermind) of the age
- —隔世の感feeling that one is living in a completely different age; feeling that something belongs to a different age; feeling that the world has changed dramatically
- —四半世紀quarter of a century
- —経世済民governing a nation and providing relief to people
- —一世風靡ruling the times; holding sway over the minds of the people
- —厭世自殺killing oneself out of despair (for life)
- —慨世憂国worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism
- —時世感覚sense of the times; sensitivity to the times