Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
generation, world, society, public
Kun:
On:
セイソウ
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 (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)
  • 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

15 strokes
Radical:
house on cliff 广
Parts:
广
Variants:
庿
mausoleum, shrine, palace
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2101 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 廟 【ビョウ】 mausoleum, shrine, the (imperial) court
  • 廟宇 【ビョウウ】 mausoleum, (Shinto) shrine
  • 聖廟 【セイビョウ】 Confucian temple
  • 伊勢大廟 【イセタイビョウ】 the Grand Shrines of Ise

Kun reading compounds

  • 霊屋 【たまや】 mausoleum, (temporary) resting place of a corpse

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
miao4
Korean:
myo

Spanish

  • mausoleo
  • santuario
  • palacio

Portuguese

French

1538 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3935 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2738 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
9489X Morohashi
1645 New Nelson (John Haig)
2239 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2346 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
546 2001 Kanji
3q12.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-12 SKIP code
0022.7 Four corner code
1-41-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5edf Unicode hex code