Jisho

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世

5 strokes
Radical:
one 一
Parts:
一 ｜ 世
Variants:
丗 卋
generation, world, society, public
Kun:
よ
On:
セイ、 セ、 ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
135 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 世 【セイ】 counter for generations, epoch
  • 世紀 【セイキ】 century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
  • 近世 【キンセイ】 recent past, recent times, early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan)
  • 創世 【ソウセイ】 creation of the world
  • 世 【セイ】 counter for generations, epoch
  • 世紀 【セイキ】 century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
  • 夜店 【ヨミセ】 night stall, night shop, night fair
  • 救世 【キュウセイ】 salvation

Kun reading compounds

  • 世 【よ】 world, society, public, life, lifetime, age, era, period, epoch, generation, reign, rule, the times, world (of existence)
  • 世の中 【よのなか】 society, the world, the times
  • 千代 【ちよ】 thousand years, very long period, forever
  • 君が代 【きみがよ】 Imperial reign, Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 ゆ、 ゆき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi4
Korean:
se

Spanish

  • generación
  • mundo
  • edad

Portuguese

  • geração
  • mundo
  • sociedade
  • pública

French

  • génération
  • monde
  • société
  • public
263 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
344 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
327 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
152 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
95 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
177 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
105 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
335 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.13 Japanese for Busy People
252 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
252 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
156 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
13 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4308 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2178 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2932 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
28 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31 Morohashi
3496 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
20 New Nelson (John Haig)
28 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
28 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
81 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
254 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1975 2001 Kanji
0a5.37 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
4-4-2 SKIP code
4471.7 Four corner code
1-32-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e16 Unicode hex code

去

5 strokes
Radical:
private 厶
Parts:
厶 土
Variants:
厺
gone, past, quit, leave, elapse, eliminate, divorce
Kun:
さ.る、 -さ.る
On:
キョ、 コ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
440 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 去年 【キョネン】 last year
  • 去就 【キョシュウ】 leaving or staying, (one's) course of action, (one's) position, (one's) attitude
  • 消去 【ショウキョ】 erasure, deletion, elimination, clearing, elimination (of variables), extinction
  • 国外退去 【コクガイタイキョ】 deportation
  • 去年 【キョネン】 last year
  • 大過去 【ダイカコ】 past perfect tense, pluperfect
  • 不定過去 【フテイカコ】 aorist tense (in Greek), past-perfective tense

Kun reading compounds

  • 去る 【さる】 to leave, to go away, to pass, to elapse, to be distant, to send away, to drive off, to divorce, to (do) completely, last ... (e.g. "last April")
  • 去る者追わず 【さるものおわず】 do not chase the one who leaves

Readings

Japanese names:
い
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qu4
Korean:
geo

Spanish

  • pasado
  • ido
  • dejar
  • abandonar
  • partir

Portuguese

  • foi
  • passado
  • deixar
  • passar
  • eliminar
  • divórcio

French

  • parti
  • passé
  • quitter
  • s'écouler
  • éliminer
  • divorce
189 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
276 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
258 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
618 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1051 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
475 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
133 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
266 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.8 Japanese for Busy People
414 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
420 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
309 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
261 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2678 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1364 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1850 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
757 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3070 Morohashi
2156 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
665 New Nelson (John Haig)
750 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
812 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
496 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
247 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1471 2001 Kanji
3b2.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-2 SKIP code
4073.1 Four corner code
1-21-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53bb Unicode hex code