世

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Shì

surname Shi; life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble

Examples

世事如棋局。

Life is like a game of chess.

他父亲去世了。

His father passed away.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.