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事故

shì gù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 桩、起、次

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

What 事故 means

1. accident

The characters in 事故

• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 故gùhappening; instance; reason

Example sentences

• 事故发生。
  Accidents happen.
• 事故无法避免。
  Accidents are inevitable.
• 他遇到了事故。
  He had an accident.
• 事故发生在转角。
  Shìgù fāshēng zài zhuǎnjiǎo.
  The accident took place at that corner.
• 事故发生在前天。
  The accident happened the day before yesterday.
• 他在事故中受伤。
  He was injured in the accident.

Words starting with 事故

• 事故照射shì gù zhào shèaccidental exposure

Words containing 事故

• 人身事故rén shēn shì gùaccident causing injury or death
• 意外事故yì wài shì gùaccident
• 责任事故zé rèn shì gùaccident occurring due to negligence
• 沉船事故chén chuán shì gùa shipwreck; a sinking

Sounds the same

Read shì gù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 世故the ways of the world
• 是故therefore; so; consequently

Where 事故 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 gù correctly.
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