世 shì — lifetime; all one's life
世
Level 1 · Common HSK 3 #206
shì shi4
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
noun
- (指事。金文字形。古人以三十年为一世。“止”上加三个圆点,表三十年;止,到此为止。本义:三十年)
- thirty years
- generation e.g 世功 · 世世 · 世治 · 世济 · 世卿 · 世职 · 世爵 · 世谱 · 世将 · 祖传世医
- lifetime;life e.g 今生今世尘世来世出世入世 永世不忘
- world e.g 举世闻名世故世外桃源 一世之雄 · 世尊 · 世涂 · 世界路上
- times;era;epoch e.g 近世治世浊世盛世乱世先世 世屯 · 世务
- age e.g 世远事乖
- epoch e.g 古新世
- mundane
- descendant e.g 后世 官人以世
- family property
- noble e.g 世家子弟 · 世家军籍 · 世胄
- 姓
adjective
- friendly e.g 世先生 · 世侄 · 世台 · 世伯 · 世叔 · 世翁
- elder
- great e.g 世利
adverb
- already
- always
- always;forever;ever
Related words
- 世纪 century
- 世界 world
- 世界杯 the World Cup
- 逝世 to pass away; to die; to decease; to depart this life; to expire; to leave us
- 去世 to pass away; to die; to decease; to depart this life
- 世界观 worldview; world outlook
- 世人 (common) people
- 入世 to join the WTO/cf China joined WTO in 2003, after 15 years' negotiations
- 一世 generation/period of 30 years/one's whole lifetime/lifelong/age/era/times/the wh
- 世界贸易组织 the World Trade Organization (WTO)
- 问世 to be published/to come out
- 世上 in the world; on earth
- 举世瞩目 world-renowned; the focus of world attention
- 世俗 mundane; worldly; the secular world
- 世代 generation; lineage; for generations
- 世间 world/earth
- 后世 later generations; posterity
- 人世 human world
- 世事 affairs of life/things of the world
- 出世 to enter the world (i.e. to be born)/to be reborn (in Christianity)