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大事

dà shì

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 件、桩

大事 (dà shì) means "major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 大事 means

1. major event
2. major political event (war or change of regime)
3. major social event (wedding or funeral)
4. (do sth) in a big way

The characters in 大事

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 我们能做点大事。
  Wǒmen néng zuò diǎndà shì.
  We could do something big.

Words containing 大事

• 终身大事zhōng shēn dà shìmajor turning point of lifelong import (esp. marriage)

Sounds the same

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

• 大势overall trend

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dà shì correctly.
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