TSUMUGU · TOCFL 1 (est.) · 字
世
ㄕˋ · shì
noun — generation; era; the world
字源 FORM — what the parts do
世形three tens (十) joined — thirty years
Three tens (十) tied into one graph — thirty years, the span a generation takes. From one generation: the age it lives in, 世紀、世代; and the world it lives in, 世界、世上.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
父親三十歲那年，兒子出生；兒子三十歲，又輪到下一個。
The father turns thirty the year the son is born; at the son's thirty, the next one's turn.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)三十年——一世、一代— thirty years — a generation
→世紀、世代— an age, an era
⇒世界、世上— the world常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
卅sàthirty written bare — is 卅 with its feet drawn long葉yècarries inside — grass 艹 above, tree 木 below: the leaf