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世界

shì jiè

HSK 3 · word 1880 of 3,000

Meaning

• world

Example sentence

Characters in 世界

• 世 shì world; a generation, an age
• 界 jiè a boundary; a realm, a world, a field

世 an age or generation plus 界 a boundary or realm. The word came in with Buddhism and names the world in both time and space.

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