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
- —処世上手knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life
- —戦国乱世turbulent (troubled) times; turbulent war period
- —当世気質the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays
- —遁世生活living in seclusion; retired from the world
- —抜山蓋世great strength and energy (of a mighty hero); Herculean strength and vitality
- —憂国慨世worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism
- —一世一元the practice of assigning one era name to one emperor
- —処世達者knowing how to get on in the world; knowing the secret of success in life
- —前世療法past life therapy; past life regression
- —創世神話creation myth
- —近世文学early-modern literature; Edo-period literature (1600-1867)
- —二世議員second-generation Diet member; second-generation politician; Diet member who succeeded a parent
- —辞世の句farewell poem; death poem; poem written during one's final moments
- —世紀末的fin-de-siècle; decadent
- —移民二世second-generation immigrant
- —中世都市medieval city (in Europe)
- —宗教２世second-generation believers; people following their parents' religion
- —処世哲学philosophy of living; philosophy of making one's way through life
- —永世中立国permanently neutral country
- —厭世悲観者pessimist