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人事

rén shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

人事 (rén shì) means "personnel (matters)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 人事 means

1. personnel
2. human resources
3. human affairs
4. ways of the world
5. euphemismsexuality
6. the facts of life

The characters in 人事

• 人rénperson; people
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Words starting with 人事

• 人事部rén shì bùpersonnel office; human resources (HR)
• 人事处rén shì chùhuman resources department
• 人事部门rén shì bù ménpersonnel office
• 人事管理rén shì guǎn lǐpersonnel management
• 人事不知rén shì bù zhīto have lost consciousness

Words containing 人事

• 不省人事bù xǐng rén shìto lose consciousness; unconscious; in a coma

Sounds the same

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

• 人士person; figure; public figure
• 人世the world; this world; the world of the living
• 人氏native; person from a particular place
• 人势(human) penis (TCM)

Where 人事 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Life, Fate & Command (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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