事故

Character by character

• 事shì8 strokesHSK 1affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
• 故gù9 strokesHSK 2ancient, old; reason, because

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 事故. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 事shìHSK 1

  matter; thing; item; work; affair

• 事情shì qingHSK 2

  affair; matter; thing; business

• 故事gù shìHSK 2

  old practice

• 事件shì jiànHSK 3

  event; happening; incident

• 事实shì shíHSK 3

  fact

• 事业shì yèHSK 3

  undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation

• 事实上shì shí shàngHSK 3

  in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto

• 同事tóng shìHSK 2

  colleague; co-worker

• 故意gù yìHSK 2

  deliberately; on purpose

• 军事jūn shìHSK 6

  military affairs; (attributive) military

• 好事hǎo shìHSK 2

  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

• 从事cóng shìHSK 3

  to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do

• 大事dà shìHSK 5

  major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way

• 当事人dāng shì rénHSK 7

  persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)

• 事物shì wùHSK 4

  thing; object

• 董事会dǒng shì huìHSK 7

  board of directors

• 事务所shì wù suǒHSK 7

  office; firm

• 事务shì wùHSK 7

  (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)

• 故障gù zhàngHSK 6

  malfunction; breakdown; defect; shortcoming; fault; failure; impediment; error; bug (in software)

• 事先shì xiānHSK 4

  in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior

• 办事bàn shìHSK 4

  to handle (affairs); to work

• 此事cǐ shìHSK 6

  this matter

• 出事chū shìHSK 6

  to have an accident; to meet with a mishap

• 本事běn shìHSK 3

  source material; original story