Word Meaning 遁世

とんせい tonsei

遁世 is read as とんせい (tonsei) and means monastic seclusion.

Meaning

English

monastic seclusion
seclusion from the world

Reading

Kana

とんせい

Romaji

tonsei

Writing Variants

遁世とんぜい tonzei
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

Max. 12

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

げんせ

current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

救世

きゅうせい

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