現世

Chinese

		appear; present; now appear; present; now; existing; current	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
trad. (現世)		現	世
simp. (现世)		现	世

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiànshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁶ sai³
• Eastern Min (BUC): hiêng-*sié
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiān-sè / hiān-sì
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yi-sy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiànshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siànshìh
    • Wade–Giles: hsien⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: syàn-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiannshyh
    • Palladius: сяньши (sjanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁶ sai³
    • Yale: yihn sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁶ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁶ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²² sɐi̯³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hiêng-*sié
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hieŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ siɛ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiān-sè
    • Tâi-lô: hiān-sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiexnsex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²²⁻²¹ se²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn³³⁻¹¹ se¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn³³⁻²¹ se²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɛn⁴¹⁻²² se⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiān-sì
    • Tâi-lô: hiān-sì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiexnsix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɛn²²⁻²¹ si²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɛn³³⁻¹¹ si¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɛn³³⁻²¹ si²¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶yi-sy
    • MiniDict: yi^去 sy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhi-sr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦi²² sz̩⁴⁴/

Noun

現世

1. this life

Synonyms

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• 今世 (jīnshì)
• 今生 (jīnshēng)
• 此生 (cǐshēng)
• 这一輩子 (zhè yī bèizi)

Derived terms

• 現世報 / 现世报 (xiànshìbào)

Verb

現世

1. to see the light of day; to come out
2. to lose face; to be disgraced; to bring shame on oneself
3. (Eastern Min) to suffer disaster; to fall into a plight; to come to grief

Synonyms

• (to suffer disasater): 遭殃 (zāoyāng)

Synonyms

• (to see the light of day):

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• 催生 (cuīshēng) (figurative)
• 出世 (chūshì)
• 問世 / 问世 (wènshì)
• 形成 (xíngchéng)
• 生成 (shēngchéng)
• 產生 / 产生 (chǎnshēng)
• 登臺 / 登台 (dēngtái) (figurative)
• 行世 (xíngshì) (literary)
• 誕生 / 诞生 (dànshēng)
• 長成 / 长成 (zhǎngchéng) (literary)
• 面世 (miànshì)

• (to lose face):

Dialectal synonyms of 丟臉 (“to lose face”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		丟臉, 丟人, 丟面子
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	丟份兒
	Taiwan	丟臉, 丟人現眼
	Harbin	丟人, 丟份兒, 丟份子, 現眼
	Singapore	丟臉
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	丟人, 丟人現眼, 現眼
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	丟人, 丟人顯臉
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	丟人, 丟臉, 丟人現眼
	Wanrong	丟人, 丟人現眼
	Xi'an	丟人
	Xining	丟人現眼的, 丟人敗壞的
	Xuzhou	現世, 現, 現眼, 現鼻子現眼, 現鼻子拉眼
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	丟人, 羞人, 丟醜
	Ürümqi	丟人, 丟臉, 丟醜, 丟面子, 丟人現眼, 丟人擺呆, 丟人敗姓, 現眼
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	丟人, 丟臉, 丟皮子, 肇皮
	Wuhan	丟譏, 丟醜, 丟人, 丟臉, 折人, 坍臺, 丟人現眾, 掉底子
	Liuzhou	丟臉
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	丟人, 丟臉
	Yangzhou	丟人, 現世
Cantonese	Guangzhou	丟架
	Hong Kong	丟架, 丟人現眼
	Singapore (Guangfu)	丟架
Gan	Nanchang	跌臉, 折面子, 現世
	Pingxiang	丟醜
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	失面子
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	失面子
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	失面子
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	失面子
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	失面子
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	失面子
Huizhou	Jixi	現世
Jin	Taiyuan	丟人, 敗興, 現眼, 丟人現眼, 丟人敗興
	Xinzhou	丟人
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	現世
Southern Min	Xiamen	落氣, 落臉, 獻世, 失氣
	Quanzhou	落氣, 落臉, 失氣, 失外氣
	Zhangzhou	落氣, 落臉, 現世, 失氣, 失外氣
	Tainan	落氣, 落臉, 失體面, 失氣
	Penang (Hokkien)	落氣
	Singapore (Hokkien)	落氣, 瀉衰
	Manila (Hokkien)	落氣
	Chaozhou	落臉
	Jieyang	瀉衰, 瀉世界, 瀉世瀉界, 瀉衰儂
	Singapore (Teochew)	落氣, 瀉衰
	Batam (Teochew)	落氣, 瀉衰
	Haikou	敗色水
Wu	Shanghai	現世, 退招勢
	Suzhou	現世
	Danyang	現世
Xiang	Changsha	丟格, 失格, 折格, 射格, 扮式样

Adjective

現世

1. (Eastern Min) pitiful; pitiable; poor
2. (Eastern Min) hard up; short of money; in financial difficulties

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 可憐 (“pitiful; pitiable; poor”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		可憐, 可憐見
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	可憐
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	可憐
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	孽障
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	造孽
	Guiyang	造孽
Cantonese	Hong Kong	陰功, 冇陰功, 可憐
	Dongguan	陰功
Gan	Nanchang	可憐
	Pingxiang	可憐
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	可憐, 衰過
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	可憐, 衰過
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	可憐, 衰過
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	可憐, 衰過
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	可憐, 衰過
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	苦憐
Huizhou	Jixi	造孽, 罪過
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	現世, 悲
Southern Min	Xiamen	可憐代
	Quanzhou	可憐代
	Jinjiang	可憐代
	Zhangzhou	可憐代
	Tainan	可憐代 GT
	Penang (Hokkien)	可憐代
	Manila (Hokkien)	可憐代
Wu	Shanghai	罪過
	Hangzhou	罪過
	Ningbo	罪過
	Jinhua	罪過
Xiang	Changsha	造孽
	Loudi	造孽

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
現	世
げん Grade: 5	せ > ぜ Grade: 3
goon

Kanji in this term
現	世
げん Grade: 5	せ Grade: 3
goon

From Middle Chinese 現世.

Noun

現(げん)世(せ) or 現(げん)世(ぜ) • (gense or genze) 

1. (Buddhism) the current life, one of the 三世 (sanze, “three lives”), opposed to 前世 (zense, “previous life”) and 来世 (raise)/後世 (gose, “next life”)

   現(げん)世(せ)主(しゅ)義(ぎ)

   gense shugi

   secularism

   あれは兵(へい)器(き)ではなく、地(じ)獄(ごく)を現(げん)世(せ)に現(あらわ)すものです。

   Are wa heiki de wa naku, jigoku o gense ni arawasu mono desu.

   It was not a weapon, but a manifestation of hell on earth.

   (literally, “That was not a weapon, [it] was a thing that manifested hell into the current life.”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
現	世
うつし Grade: 5	よ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

現, 現し (“current”, adjectival stem) +‎ 世 (“world; life”)

Noun

現(うつし)世(よ) • (utsushiyo) 

1. the current life

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
現	世
げん Grade: 5	せい Grade: 3
goon	kan'on

Proper noun

現(げん)世(せい) • (Gensei) 

1. (geology) the Holocene epoch

See also

• 現(げん)世(せ)代(だい) (gensedai)
• 現(げん)世(せい)紀(き) (genseiki)