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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
事儿
one's employment
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
one's employment
02
business
03
matter that needs to be settled
04
(northern dialect) (of a person) demanding
05
trying
06
troublesome
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 事儿 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 事儿 appears in 21 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Let's forget about what happened today.
Could I trouble you with something?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 事儿.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 事儿.
Directly before
- 的事儿7
- 这事儿5
- 这种事儿2
- 有点事儿1
- 一件事儿1
Directly after
- 事儿吗2
- 事儿呢1
- 事儿被1
- 事儿吧1
- 事儿都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 事儿
What does 事儿 mean in Chinese?
事儿 (shìr) means one's employment.
How do you pronounce 事儿?
事儿 is pronounced shìr.
Is 事儿 an HSK word?
事儿 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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