事 · shì
affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
- Mandarin
- shì
- Cantonese
- si6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 事 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 사
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4E8B
- Radical
- 亅 · 6
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 事
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 3 matches
那件事谁都知道。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #403269 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #449205 · Original contributor: CK · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tsriH · 側吏 反切 · #2257
- Middle Chinese
- dzriH · 鉏吏 反切 · #2267
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13081 · tsriH = 止開三去之莊 · dzriH = 止開三去之崇
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- shì
- kCantonese
- si6
- kDefinition
- affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 6.7
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:1038
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- shì,zì 10023.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- shì 1051.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- shì 337.020
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- shì(3356) shi(210)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- shì粵si6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 側吏 鉏吏
- Kangxi positions
- 0085.240
- Guangyun positions
- 357.07 358.04
- GSR references
- 0971a
- Cangjie
- JLLN
- Four-corner
- 5000.7