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失事

shī shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

失事 (shī shì) means "(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc); to mess things up". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 失事 means

1. (of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc)
2. to mess things up

The characters in 失事

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 这次飞机失事造成 200 人死亡。
  The plane accident cost the lives of 200 people.

Words containing 失事

• 飞机失事fēi jī shī shìplane crash

Sounds the same

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

• 施事(linguistics) agent; doer
• 失势to lose power and influence
• 失恃to lose sb one relies upon; to lose one's mother

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