世事

Chinese

		life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
simp. and trad. (世事)		世	事

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shìshì

(Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai³ si⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ-sṳ
Eastern Min (BUC): sié-*sê̤ṳ
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sè-sū / sè-sīr / sì-sū

(Teochew, Peng'im): si³ se⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shìshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shìhshìh
  - Wade–Giles: shih⁴-shih⁴
  - Yale: shr̀-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhshyh
  - Palladius: шиши (šiši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    世世
    世事
    事事
    事勢 / 事势
    筮仕
    視事 / 视事
    逝世
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai³ si⁶
  - Yale: sai sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai³ si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei³ xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³³ siː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: sii sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴ si⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵ sɨ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sié-*sê̤ṳ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sie²¹³⁻⁵³ søy²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè-sū
  - Tâi-lô: sè-sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seasu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /se²¹⁻⁵³ su²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /se¹¹⁻⁵³ su³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /se²¹⁻⁴¹ su³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè-sīr
  - Tâi-lô: sè-sīr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ sɯ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sì-sū
  - Tâi-lô: sì-sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siesu
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /si²¹⁻⁵³ su²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: si³ se⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sì sṳ̄
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ sɯ¹¹/

Noun

世事

secular affairs; worldly affairs
世事關心／世事关心 [Guangzhou Cantonese] ― sai³ si⁶ gwaan¹ sam¹ [Jyutping] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

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世務 / 世务 (shìwù)
事務 / 事务 (shìwù) (literary)
塵事 / 尘事 (chénshì)
塵務 / 尘务 (chénwù)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
世	事
せ Grade: 3	じ Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) せじ [séꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [se̞ʑi]

Noun

世(せ)事(じ) • (seji)

worldly matters, human affairs, ways of the world

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
世	事

Noun

世事 • (sesa) (hangeul 세사)

hanja form^? of 세사 (“worldly matters, human affairs, ways of the world”)

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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