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Define せけん seken Meaning セケン

Displaying results for せけん (seken・せけん・セケン) – ryukyu

A dictionary of the Ryukyuan language

Results from the 沖縄語辞典 データ集 Okinawago jiten dēta-shū (Okinawan Language Dictionary Data Collection), published by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, © CC BY 4.0.

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せけん 【世間】

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Phrases

せけんばなし 【世間話】

Japanese-Multilingual Dictionary (JMDict)

Results from the Japanese-Multilingual Electronic Dictionary project (JMdict), created by Jim Breen, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group.

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せけん【世間】

(Common Noun)

  1. World; Society

せけんてい【世間体】

(Noun)

  1. Appearance (in the eyes of society); Decency

せけんなみ【世間並み・世間なみ】

(Adjectival noun)

  1. Ordinary; Average

せけんばなし【世間話】

(Noun)

  1. Gossip; Chat

せけんしらず【世間知らず】

(Noun)

  1. Ignorant of the ways of the world

ぞくせけん【俗世間】

(Noun)

  1. This world; Secular society; Workaday world; This life

せけんずれ【世間擦れ・世間ずれ】

(Noun)

  1. Worldly wise; Sophisticated; Street smart; Knowledge of the world (acquired in the school of hard knocks); Toughness

せけんさま【世間様・世間さま】

(Noun)

  1. World; Society
    — Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

せけんのめ【世間の目】

(Noun)

  1. Spotlight; Public eye; Public's attention; Goldfish bowl

せけんてき【世間的】

(Adjectival noun)

  1. Public; Wordly; Ordinary

しゅっせけん【出世間】

(Noun)

  1. Monastic life

せけんばなれ【世間離れ・世間ばなれ】

(Noun)

  1. Becoming unworldly; Being free from worldliness; Not keeping up with social norms

せけんのくち【世間の口】

(Noun)

  1. What people say; Gossip; Rumours; Rumors

せけんのとおり【世間の通り】

(Noun)

  1. Reputation

せけんしゅうち【世間周知】

(Noun)

  1. Common knowledge; Widely known; Known to everybody
    — Yojijukugo

せけんいっぱん【世間一般】

(Expression)

  1. The world in general; Society; Convention

しゅっせけんてき【出世間的】

(Adjectival noun)

  1. Unworldly; Religious

わたるせけんにおにはない【渡る世間に鬼はない・渡る世間に鬼は無い】

(Expression)

  1. All people aren't evil; Don't distrust everyone; There is kindness to be found everywhere

せけんいっぱんのつうねん【世間一般の通念】

(Expression)

  1. Conventional wisdom

せけんはひろいようでせまい【世間は広い様で狭い】

(Expression)

  1. It's a small world after all
    — Idiomatic expression

せけんのくちにとはたてられぬ【世間の口に戸は立てられぬ】

(Expression)

  1. People will talk
    — Idiomatic expression