事 shì

1. 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; Giles 1892 'shih'; Guoyu '事' n 2; Kroll 2015 '事' 1, p. 415; NCCED '事' 1; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
2. shì verb to serve
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'shì' v 3; NCCED '事' 4; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
3. shì noun a government post
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事宦.
4. 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 2015 '事' 3, p. 415; NCCED '事' 6; Rouzer 2007, p. 27)
5. 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).
6. shì noun cause / undertaking / enterprise / achievment
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 事业 (ABC 'shì' n 4).
7. 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).
8. shì verb to attend
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 侍奉 (Guoyu '事' v 1)
9. shì noun an allusion
   Domain: Literature 文学
   Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 典故 (Kroll 2015 '事' 4, p. 415).
10. shì noun a condition / a state / a situation
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    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)
11. 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 2015 '事' 2, p. 415; NCCED '事' 5).
12. shì verb to enslave
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 插入 (Guoyu '事' v 3)
13. shì verb to pursue
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 奉行.
14. shì verb to administer
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 办理.
15. shì verb to appoint
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 事 is has the same meaning as 任用 (Kroll 2015 '事' 3a, p. 415)
16. 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 2015 '事' 6, p. 415)
17. shì noun meaning / phenomena
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit: artha, Pāli: attha, Japanese: gi; an object in the phenomenal world (BL '事', p. 63; FGDB '事'; Kroll 2015 '事' 5, p. 415; Sharf 2017, p. 159)

Contained in

• 董事 board member ; Board Member
• 办事(辦事) to handle affairs / to work ; to go to work / to be on duty ; temple administrator / temple staff
• 本事 ability / skill ; source material ; Itivrttaka / stories of the disciples’ previous lives ; this matter ; a tale / a story / a plot in a play or song
• 同事 colleague / co-worker ; empathy ; the same thing ; to do together ; fellowship
• 理事 member of a council ; Director (BLIA)

Also contained in

当事者 、 军事政变 、 时事 、 军事 、 实事求是 、 事业 、 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 、 赛事 、 当事 、 当事人 、 贵人多忘事 、 事物 、 事情 、 事故 、 事项 、 心事 、 喜事 、 成事不说 、 没事儿 、 没事 、 亲事 、 出事 、 懂事 、 国事 、 事迹 、 事务 、 董事长 、 碍事 、 随事 、 炊事员 、 工事 、 领事 、 民事 、 闹事 、 启事 、 失事

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 474
• Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 344
• Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》 — count: 267
• Scroll 35 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》 — count: 229
• Scroll 61 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》 — count: 192
• Scroll 2 Huayan Fajie Xuan Jing 《華嚴法界玄鏡》 — count: 178
• Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 《四分律行事鈔資持記》 — count: 170
• Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 《四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔》 — count: 167
• Scroll 20 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 《十誦律》 — count: 163
• Scroll 58 Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣaśāstra (Apidamo Dapiposha Lun) 《阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論》 — count: 152

Collocations

• 如此事 (如此事) 道如此事 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 7 — count: 24
• 事师长 (事師長) 敬事師長 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 6 — count: 16
• 敬事 (敬事) 宜敬事之 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 2 — count: 15
• 承事 (承事) 其諸弟子不恭敬承事 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 17 — count: 9
• 礼事 (禮事) 當得供養恭敬禮事 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 8 — count: 8
• 事异 (事異) 此事異 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 14 — count: 8
• 直事 (直事) 直事沙門即會聖眾 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 《佛般泥洹經》, Scroll 2 — count: 7
• 等事 (等事) 如是等事 — Da Jiangu Poluomen Jing 《大堅固婆羅門緣起經》, Scroll 1 — count: 7
• 无数劫事 (無數劫事) 盡知過去無數劫事 — Dīrghāgama 《長阿含經》, Scroll 1 — count: 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 — count: 6