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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

乐事

lèshì

pleasure

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

pleasure

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 乐事 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 乐事 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

旅行是乐事。lǚ xíng shì lè shì。

It's fun to travel.

学语言是人生中的一大乐事。xué yǔ yán shì rén shēng zhōng de yī dà lè shì。

Language learning brings a lot of joy in our life.

爱和被爱是人生最大的乐事。ài hé bèi ài shì rén shēng zuì dà de lè shì。

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 乐事.

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

Directly before

  • 一件乐事3
  • 的乐事2
  • 是乐事1
  • 一大乐事1

Directly after

  • 乐事了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 乐事

What does 乐事 mean in Chinese?

乐事 (lèshì) means pleasure.

How do you pronounce 乐事?

乐事 is pronounced lèshì.

Is 乐事 an HSK word?

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

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