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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

正事

zhèngshì

one's proper business

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

one's proper business

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 正事 actually appears in real sentences.

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

现在我们谈正事吧!xiàn zài wǒ men tán zhèng shì ba!

No published English translation for this sentence.

我刚睡醒,脑子还有点懵,别急著跟我讲正事。wǒ gāng shuì xǐng, nǎo zi hái yǒu diǎn měng, bié jí zhù gēn wǒ jiǎng zhèng shì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 正事.

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

Directly before

  • 谈正事1
  • 讲正事1

Directly after

  • 正事吧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 正事

What does 正事 mean in Chinese?

正事 (zhèngshì) means one's proper business.

How do you pronounce 正事?

正事 is pronounced zhèngshì.

Is 正事 an HSK word?

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

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