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130 word matches found for '世' using reading 'せい'
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noun
century; era
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1
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods ); medieval times; mediaeval times
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1
early modern times (Azuchi-Momoyama period to Edo period, 1568-1867); modern times; recent times
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1
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun
posterity; future life; life to come
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4
noun
twentieth century
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1
noun
1. nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); foreigner of Japanese parentage
noun, noun (suffix), noun (prefix)
2. the Second (king, etc. of the same name); second generation; junior
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noun
1. generation; lifetime
2. the age; the day
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Most common form: 余生
noun
one's remaining years; the rest of one's life
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1. present world; present age; transient world; life  (usu. げんせ; Buddhist term)
2. recent epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)  (see also: 完新世; this meaning is restricted to reading げんせい)
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1. common customs; worldliness; vulgar; popular; the world; the common people
2. secularity
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1
1. counter for generations
noun (suffix)
2. epoch  (geology, etc. term)
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3
noun
saviour; messiah
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noun
antiquity; the previous era
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noun
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siecle
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Most common form: 終生
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
all one's life; lifelong
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noun
1. passing away; death
2. death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
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1
Most common form: 浮き世
noun
1. fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
2. sad world; world of grief and worry  (esp. 憂き世)
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0
noun
conduct
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2
noun
the times
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1
noun
troubled times; turbulent times
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0
noun
creation of the world
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1
adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi), noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
present-day; nowadays
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0
noun
eternity; perpetuity; immortality; permanence
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5
once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime  (yojijukugo)
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1
noun
heir; successor
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2
noun
rare; extraordinary; unparalleled; unparallelled
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3
noun
last century; ancient times
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0
Most common form: 早逝
dying young; early death
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rule; reign; peaceful times; regime; dynasty
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noun
previous age
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