せい – Vocabulary details

せい

Counter

1. counter for generations

あなたは日にっ系けい何なん世せいですか？Which generation of Japanese descent are you?

Suffix

Geolegy

2. epoch

せ

い

nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son

worldly affairs

century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)

エリザベス１せいは１６０３年ねんに死しんだ。

Queen Elizabeth I passed away in 1603.

あなたは日にっ系けい何なんせいですか？

Which generation of Japanese descent are you?

ジョージ３せいは歴れき史し家かによって不ふ当とうに悪あし様ざまに言いわれてきた。

George III has been unfairly maligned by historians.

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