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事件

shì jiàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

事件 (shì jiàn) means "event". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 事件 means

1. incident; event

The characters in 事件

• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 件jiànitem; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc

Example sentences

• 这是个重要事件。
  This is an important event.
• 这只是偶发事件。
  That only happens occasionally.

Words starting with 事件

• 事件相关电位shì jiàn xiāng guān diàn wèi(neuroscience) event-related potential

Words containing 事件

• 亚罗号事件Yà luó Hào Shì jiànthe Arrow Incident of 1856 (used as pretext for the second Opium War)
• 水门事件Shuǐ mén Shì jiànWatergate scandal
• 核事件hé shì jiànnuclear incident
• 突发事件tū fā shì jiànemergency; sudden occurrence
• 群体性事件qún tǐ xìng shì jiànmass incident…
• 历史事件lì shǐ shì jiànhistorical incident
• 紧急事件jǐn jí shì jiànemergency
• 美丽岛事件Měi lì Dǎo Shì jiànKaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in…
• 偶然事件ǒu rán shì jiànrandom accident; chance event
• 黑天鹅事件hēi tiān é shì jiànblack swan event
• 柳条湖事件Liǔ tiáo Hú Shì jiànthe Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as…
• 六四事件Liù Sì Shì jiànTiananmen Incident of June 4, 1989
• 柳条沟事件Liǔ tiáo Gōu Shì jiànsee 柳条湖事件

Where 事件 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì jiàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.