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
    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 equivalent: artha, or: vastu, Pali: attha, Japanese: gi; an object in the phenomenal world (BCSD '事', p. 81; BL '事', p. 63; FGDB '事'; Kroll 2015 '事' 5, p. 415; MW 'artha'; Sharf 2017, p. 159)
  18. shì noun actions; karma
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: karma, Tibetan: las (BCSD '事', p. 81; Mahāvyutpatti 'karma')

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  • 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: 338
  • Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 264
  • 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: 164
  • Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 164
  • 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 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 7 — count: 24
  • 承事 (承事) 其諸弟子不恭敬承事 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 17 — count: 9
  • 事异 (事異) 此事異 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 8
  • 礼事 (禮事) 當得供養恭敬禮事 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 8
  • 无数劫事 (無數劫事) 盡知過去無數劫事 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 7
  • 等事 (等事) 如是等事 — Sutra on the Great Reliable Brahman (Da Jiangu Poluomen Jing) 大堅固婆羅門緣起經, Scroll 1 — count: 7
  • 直事 (直事) 直事沙門即會聖眾 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 7
  • 宗事 (宗事) 汝聞跋祇國人宗事沙門 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
  • 事供养 (事供養) 使諸弟子不復恭敬承事供養 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 17 — count: 6
  • 八事 (八事) 地動八事動 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 6