世

世 (radical 1, 一+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心廿 (PT), four-corner 4471₇, composition ⿻廿𠃊 or ⿻七凵)

• せ
• セ

• KangXi: page 77, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31
• Dae Jaweon: page 155, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 14, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4E16

Historical forms of the character 世
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Bronze inscriptions b02948 b02949 b02950 b02951 b02952 b02953 b02954 b02955 b02956 b02957 b02958 b02959 b02960 b02961 b02962 b02963 b02964 b02965 b02966 b02967 b02968 b02969 b02970 b02971 b02972 Small seal script s01647 Transcribed ancient scripts L35781 L35782 L35783 L35784 L35785 L35786 L35787 L35788 L35789 L35790 L35791 L35792 L35793 L19868 L19869 L19870 L19871 L19872 L19873 L19874 L19875 L19876 L19877 L19878 L19879 L19880 L19881 L19882 L19883 L19884 L19885
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

• Pictogram (象形) – three leaves on a branch. The derivative 葉 (OC *hljeb, *leb) refers to the original word.
• Ideogrammic compound (會意) : Triplication of 十 (“ten”) - thirty, such as a variant form 丗. Thirty years make one generation (thirty times twelve months gives 360 months). Compare 廿 (OC *njɯb, “twenty”).

世 (OC *hljebs) is derived from iterative devoicing of 葉 (OC *leb, “leaf”) + *-s suffix, meaning successive foliages of a tree > generations. Compare Tibetan ལོ་མ (lo ma, “leaf”), Western Tibetan ལོབ་མ (lob ma, “leaf”) and Tibetan ལོ (lo, “year”).

世

1. generation

   世代  ―  shìdài  ―  generation

2. for many generations; spanning many generations
3. era; period; time; epoch
4. dynasty; regime
5. year; age
6. Classifier for the time of one's life.

   一生一世  ―  yīshēngyīshì  ―  a lifetime, all of one's life

7. world; earth; people in the world

   世界  ―  shìjiè  ―  world

8. worldly; profane; secular
9. A surname​.

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: せ (se, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: よ (yo, 世, Jōyō)
• Nanori: とし (toshi); ゆ (yu); ゆき (yuki)

⟨yo₂⟩ → /yo/

From Old Japanese, pronunciation is distinct from 夜 (/yo₁/, “night, nighttime”).

Change in meaning of 節 (yo), in the sense of the bamboos and reeds bulging at certain intervals.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) よ​ [yóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • (Tokyo) よ [yò] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [jo̞]

• 代

世 (hiragana よ, rōmaji yo)

1. world, society
2. this world, this life

   Synonym: 俗世間 (zoku seken)

3. generation, age, era
4. lifetime

   Synonym: 一生 (isshō)

5. lifespan

   Synonym: 寿命 (jumyō)

6. time of year, season

   Synonyms: 時節 (jisetsu), 時期 (jiki), 折 (ori)

7. relationship between a man and a woman
8. period of a person leading as a patriarch (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

From Middle Chinese 世 (MC ɕiᴇi^H). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

世 (hiragana せい, rōmaji -sei)

1. generation

   ルパン三 (さん)世 (せい)

   Rupan-sansei

   Lupin the Third

世 (hiragana せい, rōmaji -sei)

1. (geology) epoch

世 (hiragana せい, rōmaji Sei)

1. a female given name

世 • (se)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 세 (revised: se, McCune–Reischauer: se, Yale: sey)
  • Name (hangeul): 인간 (revised: in-gan, McCune–Reischauer: in'gan)

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• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 世

世

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: ゆー (yū)

Cognate with mainland Japanese 世 (yo).

• IPA^(key): /juː/

世 (hiragana ゆー, romaji yū)

1. age, era, period, time; rule
2. world, society

• アメリカ世 (アメリカゆー, amerikayū): American era or rule over the Okinawan Islands
• 戦世 (いくさゆー, ikusayū): wartime, war era, war period
• 大和世 (やまとぅゆー, yamatuyū): Japanese era or rule over the Okinawan Islands

世 (thế)

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