This is a bad thing.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
坏事
bad thing; misdeed
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
bad thing; misdeed
02
to ruin things
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 坏事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 坏事 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
There's nothing wrong with not being tall.
I've done bad things that I should be punished for.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 坏事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 坏事.
Directly before
- 做坏事4
- 不是坏事2
- 的坏事2
- 办坏事1
- 不少坏事1
Directly after
- 坏事传2
- 坏事不能1
- 坏事发生1
- 坏事要1
- 坏事的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 坏事
What does 坏事 mean in Chinese?
坏事 (huàishì) means bad thing; misdeed.
How do you pronounce 坏事?
坏事 is pronounced huàishì.
Is 坏事 an HSK word?
坏事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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