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实事

shí shì

2-character word Traditional 實事

What 实事 means

1. fact
2. actual thing
3. practical matter

The characters in 实事

• 实shíreal; true; honest
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 这个故事是基于真实事件写的。
  Zhège gùshi shì jīyú zhēnshí shìjiàn xiě de.
  This story is based on actual events.

Words starting with 实事

• 实事求是shí shì qiú shìlit. to seek truth from facts (idiom); fig. to be practical and realistic

Sounds the same

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

• 时事current trends; the present situation; how things are going
• 时势current situation; circumstances; current trend
• 时式fashionable style; (linguistics) tense