Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

135 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: generation, world, society, public

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: セイ ソウ

Composition: 廿

Radical

Radical:

Reading: いち

Meaning: one

Strokes: 1

Examples

Examples with audio

紀(せいき)   century

(さんせい)   3rd generation

(ちゅうせい)   Middle Ages

界(せかい)   world

間(せけん)   world, society

代(せだい)   generation

話(せわ)   assistance

する(しゅっせする)   get promoted

の中(よのなか)   world, society

あの(あのよ)   world of the dead

Onyomi Examples

セイ counter for generations, epoch

セイキ century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

キンセイ recent past, recent times, early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)

ソウセイ creation of the world

セイ counter for generations, epoch

セイキ century, era, of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

夜店 ヨミセ night stall, night shop, night fair

キュウセイ salvation

Kunyomi Examples

world, society, public, life, lifetime, age, era, period, epoch, generation, reign, rule, the times, world (of existence)

の中 よのなか society, the world, the times

千代 ちよ thousand years, very long period, forever

君が代 きみがよ Imperial reign, Kimigayo (Japanese national anthem)