世變

Chinese

		life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime	to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
trad. (世變)		世	變
simp. (世变)		世	变

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìbiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìbiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhbiàn
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-pien⁴
    • Yale: shr̀-byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhbiann
    • Palladius: шибянь (šibjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi̯ɛn⁵¹/

Noun

世變

1. change in the world; unforeseen change in society; change in the way of things

   • 蘭趙（石隅）初與石田先生善，而自世變後，取志有不同，相爲疎絕者也。以後力詆儒者，極贊夷學（新學校落成宴詩云，孔聖門墻舊典章）。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 1922, letter by Kim Yeong'ik (金永益)

     Ranjo (Seogu) cho yeo Seokjeon seonsaeng seon, i ja sebyeon hu, chwi ji yu budong, sang wi so jeol ja ya. Ihu ryeok jeo yuja, geuk chan ihak (sinhakgyo rakseong yeon si un, Gongseong munjeon gu jeonjang). [Sino-Korean]

     Nanjo (Seogu) was originally friendly with Master Seokjeon, but after the changes in the world, there was a difference in the causes they chose to stand for, and they became distant from each other. Afterwards, he harshly slandered us Confucians and exceedingly praised the foreign sciences (a poem he wrote for a banquet upon the completion of the modern school says that the learning of the Sage Confucius is [only] ancient decrees).

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (世變):

• → Japanese: 世変(せいへん) (seihen)
• → Korean: 세변(世變) (sebyeon)

Korean

Hanja in this term
世	變

Noun

世變 • (sebyeon) (hangeul 세변)

1. Hanja form^? of 세변 (“unforeseen change in society; change in the way of things”).