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  *事* | 事* | *事
matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL: , 樁|桩,
HSK 1
thing; object / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
in fact / in reality / actually / as a matter of fact / de facto / ipso facto
HSK 3
colleague; co-worker
HSK 2
accident / CL: 樁|桩, ,
HSK 3
affair; matter; thing; business / CL: , 樁|桩
HSK 2
to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind
HSK 1
incident; event
HSK 3
in advance / before the event / beforehand / prior
HSK 4
fact / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
ability / skill
HSK 3
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
HSK 2
to go for / to engage in / to undertake / to deal with / to handle / to do
HSK 3
current trends; the present situation; how things are going
HSK 5
announcement (written, on billboard, letter, newspaper or website) / to post information / a notice
HSK 5
narrative; story; tale
HSK 2
after the event / in hindsight / in retrospect
HSK 6
major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL: , 樁|桩
HSK 5
to handle (affairs) / to work
HSK 4
to have an accident / to meet with a mishap
HSK 6
past events / former happenings
HSK 7-9
(political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database)
HSK 7-9
office; agency; bureau
HSK 6
consulate
HSK 7-9
to grow beyond the naivete of childhood; to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible; thoughtful; intelligent
HSK 7-9
lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom) / fig. to be practical and realistic
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to have one's wishes come true; wish you the best!
HSK 7-9
persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)
HSK 7-9
personnel office / human resources (HR)
business office; firm
HSK 7-9
this matter
HSK 6
(idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort
one and the same (thing) / one thing (as distinct from another)
HSK 7-9
To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job
work-related matters / documents
HSK 7-9
situation / existing state of affairs
HSK 7-9
matter / item
HSK 7-9
military affairs / (attributive) military
HSK 6
to work / to handle matters / to have a job
civil liability (law)
not bad at all; quite impressive
in advance; before the event
anything / whatever
routine business / usual practice / mere formality
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變|柳条沟事变
what's the matter? / what's going on? / how could that be? / how did that come about? / what's it all about?
incident / unforeseen event / events (in general)
personnel / human resources / human affairs / ways of the world / (euphemism) sexuality / the facts of life
HSK 7-9
happy occasion / wedding
HSK 7-9
matters / arrangements
HSK 7-9
What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關|关 + {person} + 什麼事|什么事 "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")
to detain as criminal / criminal detention
to cause an accident / to be responsible for an incident / to provoke a disturbance
HSK 7-9
personal matters
HSK 7-9
to lose consciousness / unconscious / in a coma
common-law marriage; de facto marriage
when things come to a head (idiom)
disturbance / incident
consul
HSK 7-9
random accident / chance event
trivial matter / Big deal!
historical incident
member of council / (literary) to take care of matters
HSK 7-9
factual basis
chairman of the board of directors
HSK 7-9
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
source material / original story
one's proper business
as matters stand; things having reached this stage
to work together
a criminal
good deeds
bad thing; misdeed / to ruin things
HSK 7-9
culpable driving causing serious damage or injury
to dispose of a matter / to be done with it
trifle / trivial matter / CL: 點|点
politics; government affairs
never put off until tomorrow what you can do today (idiom)
(idiom) to no avail; of no use
HSK 7-9
devotion to one's work / professional ambition
the coup of 12th Mar 1927, an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the communists / called 反革命政變|反革命政变 or 慘案|惨案 in PRC literature
(Cantonese) same as 紅包|红包
to act impetuously (idiom); on an impulse
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
trivial matter / trifle / annoying thing
lit. you can't gain knowledge without practical experience (idiom) / fig. wisdom only comes with experience
peacemaker; mediator / (derog.) fixer
to have nothing to do / to idle one's time away (idiom)
HSK 7-9
folk story / folktale
(idiom) to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere
HSK 7-9
personnel office
everyday routine / ordinary affairs
service to the public / public welfare undertaking / charity / social facility
everything
Criminal Investigation Bureau
to be meddlesome
a load on one's mind / worry / CL: , 樁|桩
HSK 7-9
to be occupied with sth / to have sth on one's mind / there is something the matter
HSK 6
emergency

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