世

See also: 丗

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) - three leaves on a branch. The derivative 葉 refers to the original word.

世
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

世 (radical 1 一+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心廿 (PT), four-corner 4471₇)

1. generation
2. world
3. era

Descendants

• せ
• セ

References

• KangXi: page 77, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31
• Dae Jaweon: page 155, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 14, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4E16

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		世

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sṳ
• Min Dong (BUC): sié
• Min Nan (POJ): sì / sè
• Wu (WT Romanisation): sr (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai³
    • Yale: sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai³
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /sɨ⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sié
    • IPA ^(key): /siɛ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sì / sè
    • Tâi-lô: sì / sè
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕi¹¹/, /se¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi²¹/, /se²¹/
  • Note: sì - vernacular, sè - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: sr (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (世, reconstructed)
Character (世), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 書 (26) Final: 祭 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 舒制切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɕiᴇiH/	/ɕi̯ɛiH/	/ɕiɛiH/	/ɕiɛiH/	/ɕiajH/	/ɕĭɛiH/	/ɕjæiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (世, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
世								shì								‹ syejH ›								/*l̥ ap-s/								generation
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
世					11537					世					蓋					2					丗					/*hljebs/					本枼葉初文（文源）

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

世

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: せ (se)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: よ (yo)

Compounds

• 世界 (せかい, sekai)
• 世紀 (せいき, seiki)
• 世辞 (せじ, seji)
• 永世 (えいせい, eisei)
• 救世主 (きゅうせいしゅ, kyūseishu)
• 創世記 (そうせいき, sōseiki)
• 創世期 (そうせいき, sōseiki)
• 新世界 (しんせかい, shinsekai)

Counter

世 (hiragana せい, romaji -sei)

1. generations

Noun

世 (hiragana よ, romaji yo)

1. world, society
2. generation, age

Suffix

世 (hiragana せい, romaji -sei)

1. (geology) epoch

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Korean

Hanja

世 (se)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 세 (revised: se, McCune-Reischauer: se, Yale: sey)

• Name (hangeul): 인간 (revised: in-gan, McCune-Reischauer: in'gan)

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References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 世

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Vietnamese

Han character

世 (thế, thá, thé, thể)

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References

• Nom Foundation