事

matter, thing, job

No. 67 most used · 0.40% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 251.

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

It began as a hand holding a tool: the job to be done.

Words

• 事情

  shì qing

  affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件,桩
• 没事

  méi shì

  it's not important; it's nothing; never mind
• 怎么回事

  zěn me huí shì

  what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?
• 故事

  gù shì

  old practice
• 事实

  shì shí

  fact; CL:个
• 事实上

  shì shí shàng

  in fact; in reality; actually

Sentences

• 今天发生了什么事？

  jīn tiān fā shēng le shén me shì

  What happened today?
• 你不知道那件事吗？

  nǐ bù zhī dào nà jiàn shì ma

  Don't you know that?
• 你做的事我都知道。

  nǐ zuò de shì wǒ dōu zhī dào

  I know everything that you've done.
• 你有什么事要说吗？

  nǐ yǒu shén me shì yào shuō ma

  Do you have something to say?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.