Tonada

Japanese word

世界

せかい
In your course · Chapter 23
Part of speech
noun
Level
B1
Frequency
No. 68 in the course corpus

Meanings

  1. world
  2. the world
  3. society
  4. the universe
  5. sphere
  6. circle
  7. world-renowned
  8. world-famous
  9. realm governed by one Buddha
  10. space

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Kanji

  • 世
    On reading:
    セ、セイ、ソウ
    Kun reading:
    よ
    Meanings:
    generation, world, society, public
  • 界
    On reading:
    カイ
    Meanings:
    world, boundary

Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

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