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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
回事
(old) to report to one's master
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(old) to report to one's master
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 回事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 回事 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
There really is such a thing as Internet addiction.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 回事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 回事.
Directly before
- 一回事6
- 麽回事6
- 这回事3
Directly after
- 回事呢1
- 回事啊1
- 回事吗1
- 回事了1
- 回事嘛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 回事
What does 回事 mean in Chinese?
回事 (huíshì) means (old) to report to one's master.
How do you pronounce 回事?
回事 is pronounced huíshì.
Is 回事 an HSK word?
回事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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