Memory phrase for the Kanji: 世


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Meaning epoch, generation, lifetime, age

Pronunciation

shì

Explanation

Left: corner , right: twenty 廿

Mnemonic


 
Go around the corner for twenty times and you are in a (different) epoch.

Radicals

epoch, generation, age
corner
廿 twenty
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 Vocabulary

 在世  zài shì  to be alive
 逝世  shì shì  to pass away; to die
 徐世昌  Xú Shì chāng  Xu Shichang (1855-1939), politician associated with the Northern Warlords, president of China in 1921
 世纪末  shì jì mò  end of the century
 世界观  shì jiè guān  worldview; world outlook; Weltanschauung
 世界观  shì jiè guān  
 世纪  shì jì  century
 世界  shì jiè  world
 第三世界  dì sān shì jiè  Third World
 愤世嫉俗  fèn shì jí sú  to be cynical; to be embittered
 愤世嫉俗  fèn shì jí sú  

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