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同事

tóng shì

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

同事 (tóng shì) means "colleague; co-worker". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 同事 means

1. colleague; co-worker

The characters in 同事

• 同tónglike; same; similar
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 他是我的同事
  He is my colleague.
• 你们是同事。
  You are colleagues.
• 明惠是我的同事。
  Minghui is my colleague.
• 我和他们是同事。
  They are my colleagues.
• 他的同事是英国人。
  His co-worker is English.
• 我确实喜欢我的同事。
  I really like my coworkers.

Where 同事 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Extended Family (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tóng shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.