Illustration: At a neighborhood intersection, a child beside a grandparent watches several ordinary lives meet. A baker hands bread to a delivery worker, a caregiver guides an older resident’s wheelchair past a parked bicycle, and two students make room for a parent pushing a stroller.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

世よの中なか

yononaka

society, the world

Example sentences

  1. 世よの中なか全体ぜんたいがおかしくなっているんだよ。

    The whole world is off its rocker.

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  2. 世よの中なかは狭せまいものですね。

    It’s a small world.

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  3. 厳きびしい世よの中なかだなあ。

    It’s a grim world.

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Kanji in 世中

  • 世generation; worldOnセイ・セ・ソウKunよ
  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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