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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

易事

yìshì

easy task

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

easy task

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 易事 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 易事 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

翻译绝对不是一件易事。fān yì jué duì bú shì yī jiàn yì shì。

Translation is by no means easy.

把一叠扑克牌的排列次序背熟,虽然绝不是一件易事,却也不是没有可能的。bǎ yī dié pū kè pái de pái liè cì xù bèi shú, suī rán jué bú shì yī jiàn yì shì, què yě bú shì méi yǒu kě néng de。

Memorising the cards in a deck in order is certainly a difficult task, but manageable.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 易事.

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

Directly before

  • 一件易事2

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 易事

What does 易事 mean in Chinese?

易事 (yìshì) means easy task.

How do you pronounce 易事?

易事 is pronounced yìshì.

Is 易事 an HSK word?

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

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