事
shì HSK1

matter

事 shì
matter noun
matter; affair; thing; event

你明白发生什么事吗？

nǐ míng​bai fā​shēng shén​me shì ma?

Do you understand what's happening?

房里什么事都没发生。

fáng li shén​me shì dōu méi fā​shēng.

Nothing happened in the room.

accident noun
accident; trouble; mishap; unintended event

他不会让我们有事的。

tā bù​huì ràng wǒ​men yǒu shì de.

He won't let anything happen to us.

work noun
job; work; occupation; employment

他总是能找到事做。

tā zǒng​shì néng zhǎo dào shì zuò.

He can always find something to do.

to engage in verb
(bound form) to be engaged in; to do; to work at
responsibility noun
responsibility; involvement; business; concern

这不关你的事。

zhè bù​guān nǐ de shì.

It's none of your business.

to serve
(bound form) to wait upon; to serve parents or a ruler
surname
a Chinese surname
to insert
(literary) to insert; to stick into (interchangeable with 剚 zì)

Cross-References

Classifier

Has erhua variant

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
58th most common 2579.6 per million
Movie subtitles
46th most common 3836.7 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2912.8 per million appears in 99% of films
Written text
528.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+4E8B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)