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事 shì

shì noun matter / thing / item
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 等 has a similar meaning to 事情 (ABC 'shì' n 1; GCED 'shih'; Guoyu '事' n 2; Kroll '事' 1; NCCED '事' 1; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
shì verb to serve
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'shì' v 3; NCCED '事' 4; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
shì noun a government post
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事宦.
shì noun duty / post / work
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事务 (ABC 'shì' n 3; Guoyu '事' n 1; Kroll '事' 3; NCCED '事' 6; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
shì noun occupation
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 职业 (ABC 'shì' n 3; NCCED '事' 2).
shì noun cause / undertaking / enterprise / achievment
Domain: Politics 政治
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事业 (ABC 'shì' n 4).
shì noun an accident
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事故 or 变故 (ABC 'shì' n 2; Guoyu '事' n 3; NCCED '事' 3).
shì verb to attend
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 侍奉 (Guoyu '事' v 1)
shì noun an allusion
Domain: Literature 文学
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 典故 (Kroll '事' 4).
shì noun a condition / a state / a situation
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Condition 状况
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 情况. For example, For example, 实事求是 'to handle matters according to the actual situation' (CCI '实事求是'; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
shì verb to engage in
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 从事 (ABC 'shì' v 2; Guoyu '事' v 2; Kroll '事' 2; NCCED '事' 5).
shì verb to enslave
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 插入 (Guoyu '事' v 3)
shì verb to pursue
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 奉行.
shì verb to administer
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 办理.
shì verb to appoint
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 任用 (Kroll '事' 3a).
shì measure word a piece
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity 数量
Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 件 (Kroll '事' 6).
shì noun the meaning of a word / relating to the phenomenal world
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit: artha, Pāli: attha; in contrast to the independent existence of the thing (Kroll '事' 5)

Contained in

时事、军事、实事求是、事业、董事、事件、总领事馆、军事化、事实、事宜、人事、事先、故事、从事、大事、事实上、办事、赛事、当事、当事人、贵人多忘事、事物、事情、事故、事项、心事、喜事、本事、没事儿、没事、亲事、出事、懂事、同事、国事、事迹、事务、董事长、碍事、炊事员、工事、理事、领事、民事、闹事、启事、失事、事变、事例、事态、外事

Texts that the word is most frequently mentioned in

Collection	Document Title	Occurrences
Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》	Scroll 1	491
Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》	Scroll 2	359
Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》	Scroll 1	287
Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》	Scroll 35	235
Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》	Scroll 61	193
Huayan Fajie Xuan Jing 《華嚴法界玄鏡》	Scroll 2	179
Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》	Scroll 3	178
Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》	Scroll 20	175
Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》	Scroll 2	171
Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣaśāstra (Apidamo Dapiposha Lun) 《阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論》	Scroll 58	152

Collocations

Simplified	Traditional	Example	Example Reference	Frequency
如此事	如此事	道如此事	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 7	30
事师长	事師長	敬事師長	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 6	19
敬事	敬事	宜敬事之	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 2	15
承事	承事	其諸弟子不恭敬承事	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 17	9
礼事	禮事	當得供養恭敬禮事	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 8	8
事异	事異	此事異	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 14	8
无数劫事	無數劫事	盡知過去無數劫事	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 1	7
等事	等事	如是等事	Da Jiangu Poluomen Jing 《大堅固婆羅門緣起經》 Scroll 1	7
直事	直事	直事沙門即會聖眾	Nirvāṇa Sūtra 《佛般泥洹經》 Scroll 2	7
事供养	事供養	使諸弟子不復恭敬承事供養	Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》 Scroll 17	6