事
Meanings
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- 1.matter
- 2.thing
- 3.item
- 4.work
- 5.affair
- 6.CL:件[jiàn],桩[zhuāng],回[huí]
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Wiktionary
- 1.thing; matter (Classifier: 件 m c; 樁／桩 m; 回 m; 條／条 mn-t)
- 2.task; work; job; career
- 3.misfortune; mishap; accident; incident
- 4.responsibility; involvement
- 5.speech; words; language
- 6.to serve; to attend to someone
- 7.to be engaged in
- 8.fussy; pernickety; troublesome
- 9.27th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "duties" (𝌠)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 又 (“hand”) + 中 (“a flagpole with a drum”) – flag in hand > to perform one's job. Compare 吏. Furthermore, both characters are related to 史, which is a variant without the horizontal stroke on top. Exopassive of 士 (OC *zrɯʔ, “to give or carry out an assignment; to serve”), literally “what has been assigned” (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, based on Gong (2000), STEDT derives it from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-dzas (“thing”), whence Burmese စာ (ca, “thing”) and Tibetan རྫས (rdzas, “thing, object, matter”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我沒事。
I am okay.
我沒事。
I'm OK.
我有些事。
I have things to take care of.
我得说这事。
I have to say this.
這是件壞事。
This is a bad thing.
给我点事做。
Give me something to do.
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Derived terms
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