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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

万事

wànshì

all things

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

all things

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 万事 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 万事 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

万事皆在上帝的掌控之中。wàn shì jiē zài shàng dì de zhǎng kòng zhī zhōng。

Everything is in the hands of God.

万事顺利。wàn shì shùn lì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 万事.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 万事.

Directly before

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

Directly after

  • 万事顺利1
  • 万事皆1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 万事

What does 万事 mean in Chinese?

万事 (wànshì) means all things.

How do you pronounce 万事?

万事 is pronounced wànshì.

Is 万事 an HSK word?

万事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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