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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

多事

duōshì

meddlesome

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

meddlesome

02

eventful

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 多事 actually appears in real sentences.

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

「你和父亲关系不好吗?」「……」「不好意思,我不应该多事的。」「nǐ hé fù qīn guān xì bù hǎo ma?」「……」「bù hǎo yì sī, wǒ bù yīng gāi duō shì de。」

"You don't get on well with your father?" "..." "Sorry, that was none of my business."

不怕事多,只怕多事。bù pà shì duō, zhǐ pà duō shì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 多事.

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

Directly before

  • 应该多事1
  • 只怕多事1

Directly after

  • 多事的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 多事

What does 多事 mean in Chinese?

多事 (duōshì) means meddlesome.

How do you pronounce 多事?

多事 is pronounced duōshì.

Is 多事 an HSK word?

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

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