回事 huíshì
huíshì
noun
to report to one's master
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '回事')
Contained in
- 当回事(當回事) to take seriously (often with negative expression: don't take it too seriously)
- 两回事(兩回事) two quite different things; two unrelated matters
- 一回事 one thing; the same as
- 像那么回事儿(像那麽回事兒) not bad at all; quite impressive
- 当回事儿(當回事兒) to take seriously
- 不当一回事(不當一回事) not regard as a matter (of any importance)
- 怎么回事(怎麼回事) what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?
- 说是一回事,做又是另外一回事(說是一回事,做又是另外一回事) Saying is one thing, doing quite another
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 55 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 6 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 33 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 56 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- Luotuo Xiangzi 《骆驼祥子》 A small number of phrases from the writings of Lao She — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 36 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 16 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 14 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 71 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 64 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
Collocations
- 进来回事 (進來回事) 接著周瑞家的張材家的都進來回事情 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 45 — count: 2