IDENTITY
世shìworld; era; generation
HSK 3Top 200
CORE MEANING
world; era; generation
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.worldHSK3
- 2.generationHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 一one radical (yī)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- single component
- IDS sequence
- 世
USAGE
Common words
世界shìjièworld
世纪shìjìcentury
去世qùshìto pass away
Graded examples
我想去世界各地看看。Wǒ xiǎng qù shìjiè gèdì kànkan.HSK3
I want to travel and see the world.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Three tens (十) strung together — thirty years make one generation.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #200
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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