Keyword
world
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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KankenLevel 8
Heisig28
Readings
(74%)
(13%)
せい
(11%)
Composed of
picture frame
twenty
Mnemonic

At the start of the twentieth century we had two huge world wars which claimed a lot of lives. You can still see how the world was back then by looking at the pictures from that era, pictures that sit now in a picture frame.

Used in kanji (5 in total)
get
bamboo grass
excretion
???
Used in vocabulary (2280 in total)
the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous
society; the world; the times
this world; this life; world of the living
Examples (200 in total)
Is it true that the world will end in 2012?
There are more than 4000 languages in the world.
It's a big world.