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Chinese dictionary
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n.lifetime
一世
all one's life
今世
this present life
在世期间
during one's life time
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n.world; society
俗世
earthly world
世上
in the world
世道
manners and morals of the time
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n.from generation to generation
世爵
hereditary rank of nobility
世谊
friendship spanning many generations
世交
long-standing friendship between two families
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n.generation
第十世
tenth generation
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n.of people who maintain good family relations
世伯
uncle
世兄
father's friend's son who is older than oneself
世叔
younger friend of one's father
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n.age
盛世
flourishing age
近世
modern times
当世
contemporary era
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n.epoch
古新世
the Palaeocene Epoch
Words and phrases with 世
- 世界水平[word]international standard/level
- 世界人权宣言[word]Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 世医[word]physicians from a family for generations
- 世风[word]public morals and mores
- 世界地图[word]map of the world
- 世情[word]ways of the world; international situation and world pattern
- 世纪末[word]end of a century; the declining stage of a society
- 世道[word]ways of the world
- 世界遗产[word]world heritage
- 世道人心[idiom]ways of the world and public sentiments
- 世风不古[idiom]Public morals and mores are no longer what they were in the good old days.
- 世界末日[idiom]doomsday
- 世代相传[idiom]pass on from generation to generation
- 世外桃源[idiom]fictitious land of peace, away from the turmoil of the world
- 世家子弟[idiom]descendants of an aristocratic family
- 世世代代[idiom]age after age
- 世态炎凉[idiom]fickle or snobbish ways of the world
- 世代书香[idiom]One's family was always one of scholars.