事 (shì)
Matter; affair; thing; business.
How 事 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 事
- Simplified
- 事 (unchanged)
Common words using 事
- 事情 shìqing
- affair; matter; thing
- 故事 gùshì
- old practice; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 世事 shìshì
- affairs of life; things of the world
- 事事 shìshì
- everything
- 事件 shìjiàn
- event; happening; incident
- 事先 shìxiān
- in advance; before the event; beforehand
- 事兒 shìr
- one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled
- 事務 shìwù
- (political, economic etc) affairs; work
- 事實 shìshí
- fact; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 事後 shìhòu
- after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect
- 事故 shìgù
- accident; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3],次[ci4]
- 事業 shìyè
- undertaking; project; activity
事 in a sentence
你找我有什麼事嗎？
Nǐ zhǎo wǒ yǒu shénme shì ma?
“Do you have some business with me?”
How common is 事?
事 is the 58th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 32.7% of all running text.
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