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世
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Definitions
- 1. life
- 2. age
- 3. generation
- 4. era
- 5. world
- 6. lifetime
- 7. epoch
- 8. descendant
- 9. noble
Example Sentences
1 shown世 間險惡。
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Words Containing 世
the Third (of numbered kings)
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
Deng Shichang (1849-1894), Qing dynasty naval specialist, founded naval dockyards and two naval colleges, died heroically in action against the Japanese
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[féng jì cái]
world record
Zurich, Switzerland
ranked number one in the world
later generations
Book of Genesis
hereditary house
Miss World Beauty Pageant
Swarovski crystal
to fool the world and usurp a good name (idiom)
previous generations
the secular world
microcosm
a maxim
stout (beer) (loanword)
to see the world
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
world peace
generation
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗[táng tài zōng] (599-649), reigned 626-649
family with hereditary emoluments
Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921
Third World
the foremost person of his age
everywhere
rare
the world of material desires (Buddhism)
(religion) this mortal life; the mundane world
afterlife
King Mohammed VI (King of Morocco)
World Journal, US newspaper
the teeming world
Wang Shichong (-621), general of late Sui and opponent of early Tang
Minecraft (video game)
succession
world-famous (idiom)
the world in chaos
the objective world (as opposed to empirical observation)
(long time) friend of the family
Gestapo
George I of Great Brittain
to make the world a better place
a flourishing period
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
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
to die
feud
the wider world
world championship
affairs of life
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss or Sukhavati (Sanskrit)
world power
century
Harald V of Norway
world famous
world map
World Uighur Congress
the world of the dead
salvation
alone in the world (idiom)
previous life
World Health Organization (WHO)
public morals are degenerating with each passing day (idiom)
famous throughout the world
Genesis (first book of the Bible)
to be reincarnated
World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
to withdraw from society and live like a hermit (idiom)
to be alive
Esperanto
Letsie III of Lesotho
macrocosm
to be cynical
to stand aloof from worldly affairs
end of the century
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
the world
World Heritage site
World Games
to be born
World Expo
world of the living
this life
Oligocene (geological epoch from 34m-24m years ago)
to pass away
statecraft
Palaeocene (geological epoch from 65m-55m years ago)
to see the world
to consider oneself unexcelled in the world
Stories to Caution the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[féng mèng lóng] published in 1624
this life
from age to age
World Customs Organization
the Second (of numbered kings)
Stories to Awaken the World, vernacular short stories by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[féng mèng lóng] published in 1627
World Financial Center (New York City)
to trifle without respect (idiom); to despise worldly conventions
World War One
public morals
World Intellectual Property Organization
Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages)
the world situation; the state of the world
creationism (religion)
ecumenical
lit. to descend to earth (of an immortal)
peerless talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit
Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
the present age
to consider oneself above worldly matters (idiom)
the gods love the common people (idiom)
peace and prosperity (idiom)
nowadays
to die
practice medicine or pharmacy to help the people or public
the fifth (of series of numbered kings)
World War Two
world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple)
the name of various newspapers, notably Le Monde (France), El Mundo (Spain) and Die Welt (Germany)
separated by a generation
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 Economic Forum
(Buddhism) the world of the living
World War II
family influential for generations
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university
World Trade Organization (WTO)
the foremost person of his age
spirit world
worldly affairs
way of life
hereditary office
Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[táng chū sì dà jiā]
eternal
for many generations
Four Generations Under One Roof, novel by Lao She 老舍[lǎo shě]
to announce to the world (idiom)
World Health Assembly
Spyker
to fight the whole world (idiom)
to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
reincarnation or transmigration (Buddhism)
to die
to die
ukiyo-e
the Savior (in Christianity)
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[wéi kè duō · yǔ guǒ]
end of the world
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
to swim with the tide (idiom)
World Cup
to die
Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) Jesuit who served as Qing court painter for 50 years
people (in general)
see 聰明一世，糊塗一時|聪明一世，糊涂一时[cōng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí]
succession struggle
alternation of generations
like a thing of the previous generation
world's first
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
global economy
world-famous
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
Pax Americana
(UNESCO) World Cultural Heritage
world
hereditary benefits such as rank and wealth
the ways of the world
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
the world in chaos
World Honored One
to pass away
Brave New World, novel by Aldous Huxley 阿道司·赫胥黎[ā dào sī · hè xū lí]
the way of one's conduct and interaction in society (idiom)
Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
World Wildlife Fund WWF
unpracticed
World Trade Organization (WTO)
medieval
Eocene (geological epoch from 55m-34m years ago)
World food program (United Nations aid agency)
the mundane world; the world of mortals
worldly wisdom
world famous
the ways of the world
to die
great wide world
global warming
to shun the world
(one's) inner world
worldly affairs
Qin Ershi (229-207 BC), second Qin emperor
Dai Mingshi (1653-1713), early Qing writer
to leave this world
World of Warcraft (video game)
a good reputation to last a hundred generations
final years of the century
a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
world-renowned
Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt
the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
(law) absolute rights
to receive worldwide attention
incomparable
of this world
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Salvation Army (protestant philanthropic organization founded in London in 1865)
the roof of the world (usually refers to Tibet or Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原[qīng zàng gāo yuán])
paradise (mainly Buddhist)
One world - one dream, motto of 2008 Beijing Olympic games
crown prince
all ages
Luo Shichang, Qing dynasty painter
lit. progenitor of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), title of Khubilai Khan (1215-1294), first Yuan dynasty emperor, reigned 1260-1294
the world of the living
unrivalled
worldwide
to engage with secular society
the creation (in mythology and Genesis 1-2)
last phase (of an age)
21st century
to be of humble origin (idiom)
model teacher of every age (idiom)
unequalled in his time
final phase
World Trade Center
world-weary
to pass away
for many generations
Holocene (geological period covering approx 12000 years since the last ice age)
to die
(idiom) to announce to the world; to make public; to let everyone know
world
to see the world
Han Shichang (1897-1977), actor specializing in Kunqu opera 崑曲|昆曲[kūn qǔ]
Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
on earth
ecumenical
see 桃花源[táo huā yuán]
see 桃花源[táo huā yuán]
family background
world war
to be published (of art, literary works etc)
even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment (idiom)
worldview
throughout the world
ecumenical
Gone with the Wind (film)
unworldly
to die
unique
karmic retribution within one's lifetime
devil incarnate (idiom)
World Bank
to be published
handed down from ancient times
hereditary monarchy
all over the world
a woman of unmatched beauty (idiom)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
World Games
profane
Miocene (geological epoch from 24m-5m years ago)
20th century
sophisticated
lineage
WTO (World Trade Organization)
Pope Benedict XVI, original name Joseph Alois Ratzinger (1927-), pope 2005-2013
cosmos (Buddhism)
Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
previous life
universally shocking
good-for-nothing
the ways of the world
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]
World Trade Center
one's life experience
the ways of the world
world-class
to travel around the world
Pliocene (geological epoch from 5m-2m years ago)
to conduct oneself in society
experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise
(of one's name, reputation etc) to be immortalized (idiom)
world trade
see 恍如隔世[huǎng rú gé shì]
Sasebo, city and naval port in Nagasaki prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan
unrivaled (idiom); world number one