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There are 10 total results for your 世世 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

世世

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shì shì
    shi4 shi4
shih shih
 seze
    よよ
from age to age
(n-adv,n-t) for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
age after age

世世代代

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shì shì dài dài
    shi4 shi4 dai4 dai4
shih shih tai tai
for many generations

世世生生

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shì shì shēng shēng
    shi4 shi4 sheng1 sheng1
shih shih sheng sheng
 sese shōshō
Transmigration after transmigration in the six states of mortal existence.

生生世世

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shēng shēng shì shì
    sheng1 sheng1 shi4 shi4
sheng sheng shih shih
 shōshōseze
    しょうじょうぜぜ
(n-adv,n) (yoji) eternity; forever; through all eternity
continuous life

Variations:
世々
世世

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 seze; sese; seisei(ok) / seze; sese; sese(ok)
    せぜ; せせ; せいせい(ok)
many generations

世世限りなく

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 yoyokagirinaku
    よよかぎりなく
forever and ever

世世限り無く

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 yoyokagirinaku
    よよかぎりなく
forever and ever

Variations:
生々世々
生生世世

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 shoujouseze; shoujousese / shojoseze; shojosese
    しょうじょうせぜ; しょうじょうせせ
(adv,n) (yoji) eternity; forever; through all eternity

Variations:
代々
世々
代代
世世

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 yoyo
    よよ
(adv,n,adj-no) (See 代々・だいだい) for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages

Variations:
世々限り無く
世世限り無く
世々限りなく
世世限りなく

see styles
 yoyokagirinaku
    よよかぎりなく
forever and ever
This page contains 10 results for "世世" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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