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浮うき世よ
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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
Other spellings
浮うき世よ憂うき世よ
Other readings
浮ふ世せい
Kanji used
浮float世world
Kanji in other spellings
憂anxiety
Pitch accent
うきよ
うきよ
Used in vocabulary
浮うき世よ絵え
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
Noun
浮うき世よ草ぞう子し
ukiyo-zōshi; Edo-period genre of literature depicting everyday life of the merchant class
Noun
浮うき世よ離ばなれ
otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense
Noun
浮うき世よ風ぶ呂ろ
The Bathhouse of the Floating World (humorous book by Shikitei Sanba)
Noun
Examples2
No one is free from worldly cares.
You look as if you don't have a care in the world.