世

shì
#181 most
frequent character
life, age, generation, era, world

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

世 began as 止 zhǐ with three dots added. It first meant a generation of thirty years. From there the meaning grew to 'generation' and 'time period'.

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