うきよ
Meanings
Noun
1. fleeting life; this transient world; floating world
2. sad world; world of grief and worry
esp. 憂き世
3. the world of the living; this life; this world; the present world
4. (the world of the) red light districts
Pitch accent
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Composed of
floating; buoyancy; fishing float; bobber; buoy; lifebuoy
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
ukiyoe artist
otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
the way of the world; the lay of the land; the inescapable circumstances (of life); (just) the way things are
life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient
this transient world