shì

world; era; age

HSK 3 #181

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 181st character
Radical ⼀ (1.4)
Strokes 5
Index # 206

Definitions

世 shì
  1. 1. world
  2. 2. era
  3. 3. age
  4. 4. generation
  5. 5. lifetime
  6. 6. life
  7. 7. epoch
  8. 8. descendant
  9. 9. surname Shi
  10. 10. noble

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Words containing 世

Word Meaning
World War Two
Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt
the secular world
the ways of the world; worldly wisdom
human life is short; cherish your time
Sasebo, city in Nagasaki, Japan
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
secular world; the vulgar world (Buddhist concept)
extraordinary people in daily life; story book
handed down from ancient times; family heirloom
Kublai Khan; first Yuan emperor
(one's) inner world
(one's) inner world
Workers of the world, unite!
Workers of the world, unite!
world's first
Holocene; current warm geological period
to make public; to announce to the world (idiom)
to make public; to let everyone know
Firestone (Tire and Rubber Company)
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
the creation (in mythology and Genesis 1-2)
Genesis (first book of the Bible); creation myth
Genesis (first book of the Bible); creation myth