Don't waste time on trifles.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
琐事
trifle
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
trifle
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 琐事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 琐事 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
In order to make life happy, you must love the everyday trifles.
Sometimes I find that I basically have no time to pay attention to irrelevant trivia.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 琐事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 琐事.
Directly before
- 的琐事1
- 在琐事1
- 日常琐事1
Directly after
- 琐事上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 琐事
What does 琐事 mean in Chinese?
琐事 (suǒshì) means trifle.
How do you pronounce 琐事?
琐事 is pronounced suǒshì.
Is 琐事 an HSK word?
琐事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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