阅世

閱世
yuèshì
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to experience the world
  2. 2 to see life
  3. 3 to gain life experience

Examples

Tā yuèshì yǐ shēn, kàn rén hěn zhǔn.
He has seen much of life — he reads people well.
Niánqīng rén yuèshì bù shēn, nánmiǎn huì shòupiàn.
Young people haven't seen enough of the world, so they inevitably get fooled.

Tips

register
Literary/written. The character here keeps its old sense 'to pass through / experience' (same as in 阅历 yuèlì 'experience'). Modern speakers more often say 见识社会 (jiànshi shèhuì) or 阅历.
memory
Read (yuè) as 'review / pass through' rather than 'read.' 阅世 = 'pass through the world.' The 'reading' meaning of is actually a metaphorical extension of 'pass the eyes over.'

Stroke Order

yuè
shì