The Chinese Radical: 世




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Meaning
epoch, generation, age    世

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
epoch, generation, lifetime, age
shì
廿
Left: corner , right: twenty 廿
Go around the corner for twenty times and you are in a (different) epoch.  
HSK 5
drawer, tier, tray, steamer top

Left: buttocks 尸 (here: sliding door 戸), below: epoch, generation 世 (here: steam)
The sliding door can be seen as a drawer and with steam it becomes a steamer top.  
HSK 6
to leak (water, gas, secrets), to drip, drain, disperse
xiè
Left: water 氵, right: epoch, lifetime 世
(A dripping faucet/tap?) The water has for ages been leaking.  
HSK 6
to spy
dié
Left: word 讠/言, right: 枼 (generation 世, here: sb. who hides behind the leaves [traditional: 葉, simplified:叶], tree 木)
He listens to the words while he is hidden behind the leaves 世 of a tree: The spy.  

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.
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