"現世" meaning in Japanese

See 現世 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: 現世 [canonical] (ruby: (げん), (せい)), Gensei [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-pos|proper|げんせい}} 現(げん)世(せい) • (Gensei)
  1. (geology) the Holocene epoch Categories (topical): Geology Related terms: 現世代 (gensedai) (ruby: (げん), (), (だい)), 現世紀 (genseiki) (ruby: (げん), (せい), ())
    Sense id: en-現世-ja-name-u99MdJd2 Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with 2 entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 12 4 2 22 11 27 10 10 2 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 0 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 64 36 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 57 30 13 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 54 46 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 64 36 0 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

Forms: 現世 [canonical] (ruby: (げん), ()), 現世 [canonical] (ruby: (げん), ()), gense [romanization], genze [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 現世. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|現世|sort=げんせ}} Middle Chinese 現世 Head templates: {{ja-noun|げんせ|げんぜ}} 現(げん)世(せ) or 現(げん)世(ぜ) • (gense or genze)
  1. (Buddhism) the current life, one of the 三世 (sanze, “three lives”), opposed to 前世 (zense, “previous life”) and 来世 (raise)/後世 (gose, “next life”) Categories (topical): Buddhism
    Sense id: en-現世-ja-noun-SsrqXSzK Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 54 46 0 Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: 現世 [canonical] (ruby: (うつし), ()), utsushiyo [romanization]
Etymology: 現, 現し (“current”, adjectival stem) + 世 (“world; life”) Etymology templates: {{af|ja|現, 現し|世|pos1=adjectival stem|sort=うつしよ|t1=current|t2=world; life}} 現, 現し (“current”, adjectival stem) + 世 (“world; life”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|うつしよ}} 現(うつし)世(よ) • (utsushiyo)
  1. the current life
    Sense id: en-現世-ja-noun-~ni9rAxu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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Download raw JSONL data for 現世 meaning in Japanese (5.4kB)

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  "subsection": "proper noun",
  "title": "現世",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.