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あの世千日この世一日
彼の世千日此の世一日
Readings
あのよせんにちこのよいちにち
anoyosennichikonoyoichinichi
English
Expression
Proverb
a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife, better one day in this world than a thousand in the next

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ON: セイ, セ, ソウ KUN:
generation, world, society, public

Stroke: 5 Grade: 3 JLPT: N3 SKIP: 4-5-2 FC: 4471.1


ON: セン KUN:
thousand

Stroke: 3 Grade: 1 JLPT: N4 SKIP: 4-3-3 FC: 2040.0


ON: ニチ, ジツ KUN: ひ, -び, -か
day, sun, Japan, counter for days

Stroke: 4 Grade: 1 JLPT: N4 SKIP: 3-3-1 FC: 6010.0


ON: イチ, イツ KUN: ひと-, ひと.つ
one, one radical (no.1)

Stroke: 1 Grade: 1 JLPT: N4 SKIP: 4-1-4 FC: 1000.0


ON: KUN: かれ, かの, か.の
he, that, the

Stroke: 8 JLPT: N2 SKIP: 1-3-5 FC: 2424.4


ON: KUN: これ, この, ここ
this, current, next, coming, last, past

Stroke: 6 SKIP: 1-4-2 FC: 2111.1