事情 in English

Measure word

• 件 jiàn item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc attested
• 桩 zhuāng stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc attested
• 种 zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts attested in use

Character breakdown

• 事 shì matter
• 情 qíng (bound form) feelings

Stroke order

How it used to be written

事

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 21 forms

情

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 6 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 一开始许多事情看上去不同了，但我很快习惯了我的新生活。

  At first many things seemed different, but I soon got involved in my new life.

• 事情真的已经了结了吗？

  Is it really all over?

• 人生短暂，用来担心这种事情，实在太浪费了。

  Life is too short to worry about things like that.

• 他做的事情你赞成的吧？

  Do you approve of what he is doing?

All example sentences with 事情