世界觀

See also: 世界观 and 世界観

Chinese

		world; realm governed by a Buddha	to look at; to watch; to observe to look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; Taoist monastery
trad. (世界觀)		世界	觀
simp. (世界观)		世界	观

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 世(せ)界(かい)観(かん) (sekaikan, “worldview”), which is a calque of German Weltanschauung.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìjièguān

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai³ gaai³ gun¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sè-kài-koan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìjièguān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄍㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhjièguan
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-chieh⁴-kuan¹
    • Yale: shr̀-jyè-gwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhjiehguan
    • Palladius: шицзегуань (šiczeguanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ku̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai³ gaai³ gun¹
    • Yale: sai gaai gūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai³ gaai³ gun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei³ gai³ gun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³³ kaːi̯³³ kuːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè-kài-koan
    • Tâi-lô: sè-kài-kuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sea'kae'koafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /se²¹⁻⁵³ kai²¹⁻⁵³ kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /se²¹⁻⁵³ kai²¹⁻⁵³ kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /se¹¹⁻⁵³ kai¹¹⁻⁵³ kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /se²¹⁻⁴¹ kai²¹⁻⁴¹ kuan⁴⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 世界觀

1. worldview; world outlook

   • 為了充分適應新社會的需要，為了同工人農民團結一致，知識分子必須繼續改造自己，逐步地拋棄資產階級的世界觀而樹立無產階級的、共產主義的世界觀。 [MSC, trad.]
     为了充分适应新社会的需要，为了同工人农民团结一致，知识分子必须继续改造自己，逐步地抛弃资产阶级的世界观而树立无产阶级的、共产主义的世界观。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wèile chōngfèn shìyìng xīnshèhuì de xūyào, wèile tóng gōngrén nóngmín tuánjié yīzhì, zhīshi fènzǐ bìxū jìxù gǎizào zìjǐ, zhúbù de pāoqì zīchǎn jiējí de shìjièguān ér shùlì wúchǎn jiējí de, gòngchǎn zhǔyì de shìjièguān. [Pinyin]

     To fully fit in with the needs of the new society and unite with the workers and peasants, the intellectuals must continue to remould themselves, gradually shed their bourgeois world outlook and acquire the proletarian, communist world outlook.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
世	界	觀
せ Grade: 3	かい Grade: 3	かん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Noun

1. Kyūjitai form of 世界観: worldview

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Korean

Hanja in this term
世	界	觀

Noun

世界觀 • (segyegwan or McCune-Reischauer: segyegwan or Yale: sēykyeykwan) (hangeul 세계관)

1. Hanja form^? of 세계관 (“worldview”).

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
世	界	觀

Noun

世界觀

1. chữ Hán form of thế giới quan (“worldview”).