世
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Definitions
- 1. life
- 2. age
- 3. generation
- 4. era
- 5. world
- 6. lifetime
- 7. epoch
- 8. descendant
- 9. noble
Words Containing 世
for many generations
the ways of the world
sophisticated
world
World Cup
world-class
worldview
century
succession
worldwide
to pass away
to be published
unrivaled (idiom); world number one
to receive worldwide attention
world-famous (idiom)
to pass away
generation
a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
the Third (of numbered kings)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
cosmos (Buddhism)
Pliocene (geological epoch from 5m-2m years ago)
to die
to consider oneself unexcelled in the world
unworldly
on earth
see 天下無難事，只怕有心人|天下无难事，只怕有心人[tiān xià wú nán shì , zhǐ pà yǒu xīn rén]
from age to age
for many generations
affairs of life
(long time) friend of the family
people (in general)
feud
alternation of generations
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
profane
worldly affairs
see 桃花源[táo huā yuán]
see 桃花源[táo huā yuán]
crown prince
Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented
Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented
family influential for generations
World Honored One
the world situation; the state of the world
worldly affairs
the ways of the world
the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
stout (beer) (loanword)
Spyker
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
World Expo
all over the world
world peace
world map
the name of various newspapers, notably Le Monde (France), El Mundo (Spain) and Die Welt (Germany)
world war
Miss World Beauty Pageant
the roof of the world (usually refers to Tibet or Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[qīng zàng gāo yuán])
world power
(UNESCO) World Cultural Heritage
World Heritage site
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
World Journal, US newspaper
end of the world
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Customs Organization
world famous
World Intellectual Property Organization
ranked number one in the world
World food program (United Nations aid agency)
world record
global economy
World Economic Forum
World Uighur Congress
world famous
World Wildlife Fund WWF
World Health Assembly
World Health Organization (WHO)
Esperanto
global warming
world trade
World Trade Center
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Games
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
World Financial Center (New York City)
World Bank
the ways of the world
hereditary benefits such as rank and wealth
family with hereditary emoluments
lineage
end of the century
final years of the century
hereditary office
hereditary house
succession struggle
hereditary monarchy
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆[liú yì qìng]
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists)
World Trade Center
WTO (World Trade Organization)
World Games
the ways of the world
world championship
world
the wider world
public morals
public morals are degenerating with each passing day (idiom)
medieval
Miocene (geological epoch from 24m-5m years ago)
the world in chaos
Gone with the Wind (film)
the Second (of numbered kings)
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple)
21st century
20th century
World War Two
the fifth (of series of numbered kings)
Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt
the world
the secular world
worldly wisdom
Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
this life
Sasebo, city and naval port in Nagasaki prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
afterlife
the mundane world; the world of mortals
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[féng jì cái]
handed down from ancient times
lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
to engage with secular society
(one's) inner world
Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
world's first
Holocene (geological period covering approx 12000 years since the last ice age)
(idiom) to announce to the world; to make public; to let everyone know
to announce to the world (idiom)
to be reincarnated
to be born
previous generations
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
the creation (in mythology and Genesis 1-2)
Genesis (first book of the Bible)
Book of Genesis
creationism (religion)
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
world-weary
Palaeocene (geological epoch from 65m-55m years ago)
One world - one dream, motto of 2008 Beijing Olympic games
to travel around the world
Harald V of Norway
George I of Great Brittain
Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍[lǎo shě]
to be alive
(religion) this mortal life; the mundane world
previous life
great wide world
peace and prosperity (idiom)
Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago)
final phase
alone in the world (idiom)
macrocosm
the objective world (as opposed to empirical observation)
family background
to be of humble origin (idiom)
previous life
(law) absolute rights
of this world
later generations
Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921
microcosm
like a thing of the previous generation
see 恍如隔世[huǎng rú gé shì]
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[wéi kè duō · yǔ guǒ]
to be cynical
practice medicine or pharmacy to help the people or public
Minecraft (video game)
Dai Mingshi (1653-1713), early Qing writer
peerless talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit
to die
salvation
the Savior (in Christianity)
Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865)
Swarovski crystal
nowadays
ecumenical
ecumenical
ecumenical
incomparable
Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages)
last phase (of an age)
Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗[táng tài zōng] (599-649), reigned 626-649
to leave this world
paradise (mainly Buddhist)
to fool the world and usurp a good name (idiom)
eternal