世

surname Shi

life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble

twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions / also written using banker's character 念

Character component without intrinsic meaning

generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)

a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life

the Third (of numbered kings)

to consider oneself unexcelled in the world / to be insufferably arrogant

all ages

to die / future incarnation / next life / to be born / to come into the world / future generation

model teacher of every age (idiom) / eternal paragon / refers to Confucius (551-479 BC) 孔子[Kong3 zi3]

the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America

cosmos (Buddhism)

Pliocene (geological epoch from 5m-2m years ago)

unworldly / unsophisticated