現世

Chinese

		appear; present; now appear; present; now; existing; current	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
trad. (現世)		現	世
simp. (现世)		现	世

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiànshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁶ sai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiān-sè / hiān-sì
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶yi-sy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiànshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siànshìh
    • Wade–Giles: hsien⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: syàn-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiannshyh
    • Palladius: сяньши (sjanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 現世／现世 縣市／县市

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁶ sai³
    • Yale: yihn sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁶ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁶ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²² sɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiān-sè
    • Tâi-lô: hiān-sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiexnsex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²²⁻²¹ se²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn³³⁻¹¹ se¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn³³⁻²¹ se²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn⁴¹⁻²² se⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiān-sì
    • Tâi-lô: hiān-sì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiexnsix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²²⁻²¹ si²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn³³⁻¹¹ si¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn³³⁻²¹ si²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶yi-sy
    • MiniDict: yi^去 sy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhi-sr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦi²² sz̩⁴⁴/

Noun

現世

1. this life

Synonyms

• 今世 (jīnshì)
• 今生 (jīnshēng)
• 此生 (cǐshēng)
• 这一輩子 (zhè yī bèizi)

 

Derived terms

• 現世報／现世报 (xiànshìbào)

 

Verb

現世

1. to see the light of day; to come out
2. to lose face; to be disgraced; to bring shame on oneself

Synonyms

• (to see the light of day):

• 催生 (cuīshēng) (figurative)
• 出世 (chūshì)
• 問世／问世 (wènshì)
• 產生／产生 (chǎnshēng)
• 登臺／登台 (dēngtái) (figurative)
• 行世 (xíngshì) (literary)
• 誕生／诞生 (dànshēng)
• 面世 (miànshì)

 

• (to lose face):

Dialectal synonyms of 丟臉 (“to lose face”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		丟臉, 丟人, 丟面子
Mandarin	Beijing	丟份兒
	Taiwan	丟臉, 丟人現眼
	Harbin	丟人, 丟份兒, 丟份子, 現眼
	Yantai (Muping)	丟人, 丟人顯臉
	Jinan	丟人, 丟人現眼, 現眼
	Luoyang	丟人, 丟臉, 丟人現眼
	Wanrong	丟人, 丟人現眼
	Xi'an	丟人
	Yinchuan	丟人, 羞人, 丟醜
	Xining	丟人現眼的, 丟人敗壞的
	Ürümqi	丟人, 丟臉, 丟醜, 丟面子, 丟人現眼, 丟人擺呆, 丟人敗姓, 現眼
	Wuhan	丟譏, 丟醜, 丟人, 丟臉, 折人, 坍臺, 丟人現眾, 掉底子
	Chengdu	丟人, 丟臉, 丟皮子, 肇皮
	Liuzhou	丟臉
	Xuzhou	現世, 現, 現眼, 現鼻子現眼, 現鼻子拉眼
	Yangzhou	丟人, 現世
	Nanjing	丟人, 丟臉
	Singapore	丟臉
Cantonese	Guangzhou	丟架
	Hong Kong	丟架, 丟人現眼
	Singapore (Guangfu)	丟架
Gan	Nanchang	跌臉, 折面子, 現世
	Pingxiang	丟醜
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	失面子
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	失面子
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	失面子
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	失面子
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	失面子
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	失面子
Huizhou	Jixi	現世
Jin	Taiyuan	丟人, 敗興, 現眼, 丟人現眼, 丟人敗興
	Xinzhou	丟人
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	現世
Southern Min	Xiamen	落氣, 落臉, 獻世
	Quanzhou	落氣, 落臉
	Zhangzhou	落氣, 落臉, 現世
	Tainan	落氣, 落臉, 失體面
	Penang (Hokkien)	落氣
	Singapore (Hokkien)	落氣, 瀉衰
	Manila (Hokkien)	落氣
	Jieyang	瀉衰, 瀉世界, 瀉世瀉界, 瀉衰儂
	Singapore (Teochew)	落氣, 瀉衰
	Batam (Teochew)	落氣, 瀉衰
	Haikou	敗色水
Wu	Shanghai	現世, 退招勢
	Suzhou	現世
	Danyang	現世
Xiang	Changsha	丟格, 失格, 折格, 射格, 扮式样

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
現	世
げん Grade: 5	せ > ぜ Grade: 3
goon

Kanji in this term
現	世
げん Grade: 5	せ Grade: 3
goon

From Middle Chinese 現世.

Noun

現(げん)世(せ) or 現(げん)世(ぜ) • (gense or genze) 

1. (Buddhism) the current life, one of the 三世 (sanze, “three lives”), opposed to 前世 (zense, “previous life”) and 来世 (raise)/後世 (gose, “next life”)

   現(げん)世(せ)主(しゅ)義(ぎ)

   gense shugi

   secularism

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
現	世
うつし Grade: 5	よ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

現, 現し (現, 現し, “current”, adjectival stem) +‎ 世 (“world; life”)

Noun

現(うつし)世(よ) • (utsushiyo) 

1. the current life

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
現	世
げん Grade: 5	せい Grade: 3
goon	kan’on

Proper noun

現(げん)世(せい) • (Gensei) 

1. (geology) the Holocene epoch

See also

• 現(げん)世(せ)代(だい) (gensedai)
• 現(げん)世(せい)紀(き) (genseiki)