IDENTITY
事shìmatter; affair; thing
HSK 2Top 32
CORE MEANING
matter; affair; thing
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.matter; thingHSK2
- 2.to be engaged inHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亅hook radical (jué)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- single component
- IDS sequence
- 事
USAGE
Common words
事情shìqingmatter; thing
没事méishìit is nothing
同事tóngshìcolleague
Graded examples
今天有什么事情？Jīntiān yǒu shénme shìqing?HSK2
What is going on today?
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand holding a writing tool over lines of work — busy with matters.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #32
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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