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二世

二世

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
せい
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

二世 (hiragana にせい, romaji nisei)

  1. second generation, foreigner of Japanese parentage
  2. junior
  3. two existences, the present and the future
  4. the second (king of the same name)

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3