事 shì
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shì
noun
matter; thing; item
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 等 has a similar meaning to 事情 (ABC 'shì' n 1; Giles 1892 'shih'; Guoyu '事' n 2; Kroll 2015 '事' 1, p. 415; NCCED '事' 1; Rouzer 2007, p. 27) -
shì
verb
to serve
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'shì' v 3; NCCED '事' 4; Rouzer 2007, p. 27) -
shì
noun
a government post
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事宦. -
shì
noun
duty; post; work
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事务 (ABC 'shì' n 3; Guoyu '事' n 1; Kroll 2015 '事' 3, p. 415; NCCED '事' 6; Rouzer 2007, p. 27) -
shì
noun
occupation
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 职业 (ABC 'shì' n 3; NCCED '事' 2). -
shì
noun
cause; undertaking; enterprise; achievment
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事业 (ABC 'shì' n 4). -
shì
noun
an accident
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事故 or 变故 (ABC 'shì' n 2; Guoyu '事' n 3; NCCED '事' 3). -
shì
verb
to attend
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 侍奉 (Guoyu '事' v 1) -
shì
noun
an allusion
Domain: Literature 文学
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 典故 (Kroll 2015 '事' 4, p. 415). -
shì
noun
a condition; a state; a situation
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 情况. For example, For example, 实事求是 'to handle matters according to the actual situation' (CCI '实事求是'; Rouzer 2007, p. 27) -
shì
verb
to engage in
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 从事 (ABC 'shì' v 2; Guoyu '事' v 2; Kroll 2015 '事' 2, p. 415; NCCED '事' 5). -
shì
verb
to enslave
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 插入 (Guoyu '事' v 3) -
shì
verb
to pursue
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 奉行. -
shì
verb
to administer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 办理. -
shì
verb
to appoint
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 任用 (Kroll 2015 '事' 3a, p. 415) -
shì
measure word
a piece
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 件 (Kroll 2015 '事' 6, p. 415)
Contained in
- 事物(事物) thing; object
- 外事 foreign affairs
- 总理执事(總理執事) prime minister deacon
- 无论何事(無論何事) anything; whatever
- 糗事 awkward incident
- 指事 ideogram ; pointing to something
- 民事责任(民事責任) civil liability
- 无济于事(無濟於事) to no avail; of no use
- 沉船事故 a shipwreck; a sinking
- 于事无济(於事無濟) of no use
- 区区小事(區區小事) trivial matter; trifle
- 闹事(鬧事) to create a disturbance
- 事业线(事業線) business line
- 解事 to understand clearly
- 不省人事 to lose consciousness; unconscious; in a coma
- 事假 leave of absence
- 一事无成(一事無成) to accomplish nothing; to get nowhere
- 无事生非(無事生非) to make trouble out of nothing
- 疑事 a doubt ; a complex case ; an undecided matter
- 百事无成(百事無成) to have accomplished nothing
- 后事(後事) future events; and what happened next... (in fiction); funeral arrangements
- 分掌诸事(分掌諸事) they divide their work between them
- 事实胜于雄辩(事實勝於雄辯) Facts speak louder than words.
- 任事 appointment to an important post
- 事端 an disturbance; an incident
- 奉事 to attend on ; to consecrate; to enshrine and worship; to offer
- 喜事 happy occasion ; a wedding
- 用事 to hold power ; to handle affairs ; to quote literature
- 百科事典 encyclopedia
- 生平事迹(生平事跡) lifetime achievements
- 领事馆(領事館) consulate
- 结绳记事(結繩記事) knots in a cord used to record events
- 不当事(不當事) useless; regard as useless
- 事亟 an emergency
- 秀才不出门,能知天下事(秀才不出門,能知天下事) a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world
- 军事设施(軍事設施) military installation
- 事后(事後) after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect
- 尴尬事体(尷尬事體) an embarrassing affair
- 受事 to receive a task
- 三事 three things
- 政事 politics; government affairs
- 今日事今日毕(今日事今日畢) never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
- 事出不意 an unexpected matter
- 贵人多忘事(貴人多忘事) a person of eminence has a short memory
- 丧事(喪事) funeral arrangements
- 待办事项列表(待辦事項列表) to-do list
Also contained in
近事男 、 南京大屠杀事件 、 叙事 、 詹事 、 宣和遗事
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二百十三 表第四 宰輔四 Volume 213 Tables 4: Chancellors 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 333
- 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 286
- 卷二百十四 表第五 宰輔五 Volume 214 Tables 5: Chancellors 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 284
- 卷六十三 表第三 宰相下 Volume 63 Tables 3: Chancellors 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 184
- 卷五十七 志第三十八: 百官三 內命婦 宮人女職 東宮官屬 親王府屬 太后兩宮官屬 大興府 諸京留守司諸京城宮苑提舉等職 按察司 諸路總管府、諸府、諸節鎮、防禦、刺史、縣鎮等職 諸轉運泉谷等職 諸府鎮兵馬等職 諸猛安部族及群牧等職 Volume 57 Treatises 38: Official Posts 3 - Women of the Inner Court; Palace Women with Official Positions; East Palace officials; Prince's Residence Subordinates; Officials of the Empress Dowager's Two Palaces; Daxing Prefecture; Officials in Charge of Offices, Palaces, and Parks in the Capital; Surveillance Commissions; Circuit Inspectors; Prefecture Governments; Town Administration; Defenses; Magistrates; County and Town Officials; Transportation and Grain Officials; Officials in Charge of Military Forces in the Prefectures; Officals in Charge of Pacifying Savage Tribes and Pastoral Peoples History of Jin 金史 — count: 175
- 卷二百十一 表第二 宰輔二 Volume 211 Tables 2: Chancellors 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 161
- 卷二百一十 表第一 宰輔一 Volume 210 Tables 1: Chancellors 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 156
- 卷27 志第22 百官中 Volume 27 Treatises 22: Government Offices 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 132
- 卷四十九下 志第三十九下 百官四下 Volume 49b Treatises 45: Official Posts 4b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 125
- 卷二十上 本紀第二十上: 昭宗 Volume 20 Annals 20: Zhaozong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 124
Collocations
- 御事 (禦事) 越我御事庶士 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 泰誓上 Zhou Shu - Great Declaration I — count: 19
- 王事 (王事) 王事適我 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧北門 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Bei Men — count: 19
- 事靡 (事靡) 王事靡盬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧鴇羽 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Bao Yu — count: 12
- 事君 (事君) 何以事君 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 9
- 事晋 (事晉) 而事晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
- 昭事 (昭事) 昭事上帝 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧大明 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Da Ming — count: 3
- 六事 (六事) 六事之人 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 禹誓(伪) Xia Shu - Yu Shi (forged) — count: 3
- 不能事 (不能事) 不能事鬼神 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 3
- 事神 (事神) 事神則難 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 說命中(僞) Shang Shu - Charge to Yue II (forged) — count: 3
- 图事 (圖事) 不能與賢人圖事 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧狡童 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Jiao Tong — count: 2