The Radical: 世


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Meaning
epoch, generation, age    世

Explanation

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 3
epoch, generation, lifetime, age
shì
Left: corner , right: twenty 廿
Go around the corner for twenty times and you are in a (different) epoch.
廿
Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 5
drawer, tier, tray, steamer top

Left: buttocks (here: sliding door 戸), below: epoch, generation (here: steam)
The sliding door can be seen as a drawer and with steam it becomes a steamer top.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 6
to leak (water, gas, secrets), to drip, drain, disperse
xiè
Left: water , right: epoch, lifetime
(A dripping faucet/tap?) The water has for ages been leaking.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 6
to spy
dié
Left: word /, right: (generation , here: sb. who hides behind the leaves [traditional: 葉, simplified: ], tree )
He listens to the words while he is hidden behind the leaves of a tree: The spy.

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