世せい
Meanings
Counter
1. counter for generations
Suffix
Geolegy
2. epoch
Kanji used
world
Pitch accent
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い
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Used in vocabulary (62 in total)
antiquity; the previous era
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
Examples (2 in total)
Queen Elizabeth I passed away in 1603.
George III has been unfairly maligned by historians.