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Chinese
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today; modern; present today; modern; present; current; this; now |
life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime |
| trad. (今世)
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今
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世
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| simp. #(今世)
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今
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世
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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今
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世
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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jīn
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shì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ kim ›
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‹ syejH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*rm/
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/*l̥ap-s/
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| English
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now
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generation
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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今
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世
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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6599
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11537
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Phonetic
component
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今
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世
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Rime
group
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侵
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蓋
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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金
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丗
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Old
Chinese
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/*krɯm/
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/*hljebs/
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| Notes
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文源謂含初文
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本枼葉初文（文源）
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Noun
今世
- this lifetime
- contemporary times; modernity; this day and age
Synonyms
- 今生 (jīnshēng)
- 此生 (cǐshēng)
- 現世 / 现世 (xiànshì)
- 这一輩子 (zhè yī bèizi)
- (contemporary times): (literary) 即世 (jíshì)
Derived terms