Word Meaning 遁世

とんぜい tonzei

遁世 is read as とんぜい (tonzei) and means monastic seclusion.

Meaning

English

monastic seclusion
seclusion from the world

Reading

Kana

とんぜい

Romaji

tonzei

Writing Variants

遁世とんせい tonsei
遯世とんせい tonsei
遯世とんぜい tonzei

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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遁世生活

とんせいせいかつ

living in seclusion

出家遁世

しゅっけとんせい

monastic seclusion

現世

げんぜ

current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

救世

くせ

salvation

世

よ

the times

中世

ちゅうせい

Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods)

出世

しゅっせ

success in life

近世

きんせい

early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)

来世

らいせ

afterlife

時世

じせい

the times

浮世

うきよ

(the world of the) red light districts

二世

にせい

son