今世

Chinese

		today; modern; present today; modern; present; current; this; now	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
trad. (今世)		今	世
simp. #(今世)		今	世

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīnshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ sai³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kîm-sṳ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kim-sè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīnshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jinshìh
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹-shih⁴
    • Yale: jīn-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinshyh
    • Palladius: цзиньши (czinʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 今世 今市 津市

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹ sai³
    • Yale: gām sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ sɐi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîm-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: gim´ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gim¹ si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kim²⁴⁻¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kim-sè
    • Tâi-lô: kim-sè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kimsex
    • IPA (Taipei): /kim⁴⁴⁻³³ se¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kim⁴⁴⁻³³ se²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kim syejH

Rime
Character	今	世
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居吟切	舒制切
Baxter	kim	syejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiɪm/	/ɕiᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚim/	/ɕiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiem/	/ɕjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjim/	/ɕiajH/
Li Rong	/kjəm/	/ɕiɛiH/
Wang Li	/kĭĕm/	/ɕĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯əm/	/ɕi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīn	shì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam1	sai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]r[ə]m  l̥ap-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯm  hljebs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	今	世
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jīn	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ kim ›	‹ syejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]r[ə]m/	/*l̥ap-s/
English	now	generation
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	今	世
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	6599	11537
Phonetic component	今	世
Rime group	侵	蓋
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	金	丗
Old Chinese	/*krɯm/	/*hljebs/
Notes	文源謂含初文	本枼葉初文（文源）

Noun

今世

1. this lifetime
2. contemporary times; modernity; this day and age

Synonyms

• (this lifetime):

• 今生 (jīnshēng)
• 此生 (cǐshēng)
• 現世／现世 (xiànshì)
• 这一輩子 (zhè yī bèizi)

 

• (contemporary times): (literary) 即世 (jíshì)

Derived terms

• 今生今世 (jīnshēngjīnshì)