I've got work to do.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
有事
to be occupied with sth
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be occupied with sth
02
to have sth on one's mind
03
there is something the matter
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 有事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 有事 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm busy all the time.
I have something to tell you.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 有事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 有事.
Directly before
- 我有事3
- 临时有事2
- 你有事1
- 明天有事1
- 星期三有事1
Directly after
- 有事要3
- 有事想1
- 有事了1
- 有事好好1
- 有事瞒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 有事
What does 有事 mean in Chinese?
有事 (yǒushì) means to be occupied with sth.
How do you pronounce 有事?
有事 is pronounced yǒushì.
Is 有事 an HSK word?
有事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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