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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

善事

shànshì

good deeds

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

good deeds

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 善事 actually appears in real sentences.

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

如果在暗中做善事,也总是有一个良好的回报。rú guǒ zài àn zhōng zuò shàn shì, yě zǒng shì yǒu yí gè liáng hǎo de huí bào。

Secret gifts are openly rewarded.

践行善事是没有早晚之别的。jiàn xíng shàn shì shì méi yǒu zǎo wǎn zhī bié de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 善事.

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

Directly before

  • 做善事1
  • 践行善事1

Directly after

  • 善事是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 善事

What does 善事 mean in Chinese?

善事 (shànshì) means good deeds.

How do you pronounce 善事?

善事 is pronounced shànshì.

Is 善事 an HSK word?

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

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