俗世

Chinese

		vulgar	life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime
simp. and trad. (俗世)		俗	世
anagram		世俗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): súshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˊ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk⁶ sai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: súshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: súshìh
    • Wade–Giles: su²-shih⁴
    • Yale: sú-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: swushyh
    • Palladius: суши (suši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zuk⁶ sai³
    • Yale: juhk sai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁹ sai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug⁶ sei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚² sɐi̯³³/

Noun

俗世

1. the common world; the vulgar world
2. the secular world

Synonyms

• (common world):

• 世間／世间 (shìjiān)
• 人世 (rénshì)
• 人世間／人世间 (rénshìjiān)
• 人寰 (rénhuán) (literary)
• 人間／人间 (rénjiān)
• 人間世／人间世 (rénjiānshì) (literary)
• 凡世 (fánshì) (literary)
• 塵世／尘世 (chénshì)
• 塵世間／尘世间 (chénshìjiān)
• 塵寰／尘寰 (chénhuán) (literary)
• 塵間／尘间 (chénjiān)
• 濁世／浊世 (zhuóshì) (literary)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
俗	世
ぞく Grade: S	せ Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): [d͡zo̞kɯ̟ᵝse̞]

Noun

俗(ぞく)世(せ) • (zokuse) 

1. the (secular) world, earthly life

Kanji in this term
俗	世
ぞく Grade: S	せい Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): [d͡zo̞kɯ̟ᵝse̞ː]

Noun

俗(ぞく)世(せい) • (zokusei) 

1. the (secular) world, earthly life

Korean

Hanja in this term
俗	世

Noun

俗世 • (sokse) (hangeul 속세)

1. Hanja form^? of 속세 (“the (secular) world, earthly life”).