事情

Character by character

• 事shì8 strokesHSK 1affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
• 情qíng11 strokesHSK 2feeling, sentiment, emotion

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 事情. 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

• 情况qíng kuàngHSK 3

  circumstances; state of affairs; situation

• 故事gù shìHSK 2

  old practice

• 情qíngHSK 7

  feeling; emotion; passion; situation

• 事件shì jiànHSK 3

  event; happening; incident

• 事实shì shíHSK 3

  fact

• 爱情ài qíngHSK 2

  romance; love (romantic)

• 感情gǎn qíngHSK 3

  emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons

• 心情xīn qíngHSK 2

  mood; frame of mind

• 事业shì yèHSK 3

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

• 事故shì gùHSK 3

  accident

• 事实上shì shí shàngHSK 3

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

• 情绪qíng xùHSK 6

  mood; state of mind; moodiness

• 表情biǎo qíngHSK 4

  (facial) expression; to express one's feelings

• 热情rè qíngHSK 2

  cordial; enthusiastic; passion; passionate; passionately

• 同事tóng shìHSK 2

  colleague; co-worker

• 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

• 激情jī qíngHSK 6

  passion; fervor; enthusiasm; strong emotion

• 情报qíng bàoHSK 7

  information; intelligence

• 情感qíng gǎnHSK 3

  feeling; emotion; to move (emotionally)

• 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)