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一いっ世せい
Meanings
Noun
1. generation; lifetime
2. the age; the day
Noun
Suffix
3. the first (e.g. Elizabeth I)
Noun
4. issei; first-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.)
Alt. forms
一いっ世せい
98%
イッセイ
1%
Kanji used
一
one
世
world
Pitch accent
い
っせい
い
っせい
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
century
once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime
take the world by storm; to hold sway over the minds of the people
ruling the times; holding sway over the minds of the people
the practice of assigning one era name to one emperor
greatest hero (mastermind) of the age