浮世

Chinese

		to float	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
simp. and trad. (浮世)		浮	世

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fúshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁴ sai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): phû-sè / hû-sè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fúshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fúshìh
    • Wade–Giles: fu²-shih⁴
    • Yale: fú-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwushyh
    • Palladius: фуши (fuši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 伏事 拂拭 服事 服侍 服式 服飾 / 服饰 浮世

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fau⁴ sai³
    • Yale: fàuh sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁴ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: feo⁴ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²¹ sɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phû-sè / hû-sè
    • Tâi-lô: phû-sè / hû-sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phusex, husex
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pʰu²⁴⁻²² se²¹/, /hu²⁴⁻²² se²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰu²⁴⁻²² se⁴¹/, /hu²⁴⁻²² se⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰu¹³⁻²² se²¹/, /hu¹³⁻²² se²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pʰu²⁴⁻¹¹ se¹¹/, /hu²⁴⁻¹¹ se¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰu²³⁻³³ se²¹/, /hu²³⁻³³ se²¹/

Noun

浮世

1. (Buddhism) the world of the living

Derived terms

• 浮世繪 / 浮世绘 (fúshìhuì)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
浮	世
う(き) Grade: S	よ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 浮世 – see the following entry.

【うきよ】 [noun] [from 1593] 浮き世, 浮世: the transitory world or life; fleeting world; ephemeral world; impermanent life [noun] [from 1609] 浮き世, 浮世: a love affair; a person in such relationships [noun] [from 1593] 浮き世, 浮世: a red-light district (place for sexual pleasures); the obsession with such places [noun] [from 1682] 浮き世, 浮世: the current world one lives in; current social world or generation [noun] [from 1826] 浮き世, 浮世: current trends; contemporary customs; trending [...] (often used as a prefix) [noun] [from 1774] 浮き世, 浮世: synonym of 浮世節 (ukiyobushi, “kinds of early modern period songs”) [noun] [from 1638] 浮き世, 浮世: synonym of 浮世袋 (ukiyobukuro, “kind of early modern period bag”) [noun] [unclear] a type of aloes wood Alternative spellings 浮き世, 憂き世, 憂世

(This term, 浮世, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “浮世”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026