世故

the ways of the world

sophisticated / worldly-wise

surname Shi

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

happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead

unworldly / unsophisticated

worldly wisdom / the ways of the world / to know how to get on in the world

experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise / sophisticated