Definition of しせい
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(n) attitude; posture; stance; approach; carriage (of the body)
彼はまっすぐな姿勢で立っていた。
He stood in an upright position.
- (n) the street; the town
- (n) municipal organization; municipal organisation; municipality
- (n) city conditions; municipal census
- (n) government; administration; statesmanship
- (n) sincerity; devotion
- (n) one's nature or disposition
- (n) four tones (of Chinese)
- (n) the four great sages (Buddha, Christ, Confucius, Socrates)
- (n) great poet
- (n) the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
- varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
