世间

世間
shìjiān
  1. world
  2. earth

CEDICT

  1. (literary) this world; the human world; the world of mortals
  2. this world; the human world; the world of mortals

Wiktionary

人世间、世界上。

重編國語辭典

Examples

你看似对这世间已了无牵挂。

You look as if you don't have a care in the world.

Source: Tatoeba

世间没有一种具有真正价值的东西，可以不 经过艰苦辛勤的劳动而能够得到的。

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 世 shì
  1. life
  2. age
  3. generation
  4. era
  5. world
  6. lifetime
  7. epoch
  8. descendant
  9. noble
2 间 jiān
  1. between
  2. among
  3. within a definite time or space
  4. room
  5. section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars
  6. classifier for rooms

Related entries

世界 shìjiè world

classifier: 個

世界真美好。

The world is beautiful.

Source: Tatoeba

人寰 rénhuán
  1. world
  2. earthly world
天地 tiāndì
  1. heaven and earth
  2. world
  3. scope
  4. field of activity
山无棱，天地合，我就跟你走。

I'll go with you when pigs fly.

Source: Tatoeba

世 shì
  1. life
  2. age
  3. generation
  4. era
  5. world
  6. lifetime
  7. epoch
  8. descendant
  9. noble
他在數年前去世了。

He died some years since.

Source: Tatoeba

土 tǔ
  1. earth
  2. dust
  3. clay
  4. local
  5. indigenous
  6. crude opium
  7. unsophisticated
  8. one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 bāyīn
今天下这么大的雨，土松着呢。

It is still raining a lot today, and the soil is being broken up.

Source: Tatoeba

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