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世间

shì jiān

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 世間

世间 (shì jiān) means "world; earth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 世间 means

1. world
2. earth

The characters in 世间

• 世shìlife; age; generation
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Example sentences

• 鬼神是人世间的执念。
  Ghosts and gods are the obsessions of the human world.
• 你看似对这世间已了无牵挂。
  Nǐ kànsì duì zhè shìjiān yǐ le wú qiānguà.
  You look as if you don't have a care in the world.

Words containing 世间

• 人世间rén shì jiānthe secular world
• 阳世间yáng shì jiānthe world of the living

Sounds the same

Read shì jiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 适间just now; just a moment ago
• 视奸(neologism) to obsessively monitor sb's social media posts…

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì jiān correctly.
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