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事情
shìqing
Main
English Definitionaffair; matter; thing; business
Simplified Script事情
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyinshìqing
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)		Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄕˋ ㄑㄧㄥ˙
Cantonese (Jyutping)si6cing4
Part of Speech(名) noun
Measure Words件, 桩
Proficiency Test LevelHSK.v3=2
Word Decomposition
事shìmatter; thing; item; work; affair
情qíngfeeling; emotion; passion; situation

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Words With Same Head Word    
事儿shìrone's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; erhua variant of 事
事业shìyèundertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation
事实shìshífact
事件shìjiànevent; happening; incident
事实上shìshí shàngin fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
Words With Same Tail Word    
矫情jiáoqing(Beijing dialect) argumentative; unreasonable
交情jiāoqingfriendship; friendly relations
敢情gǎnqingactually; as it turns out; indeed; of course
套交情tào jiāoqingto try to gain somebody's friendship
拉交情lā jiāoqingto try to form friendly ties with somebody for one's own benefit; to suck up to somebody
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