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往事

wǎng shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

往事 (wǎng shì) means "past events; former happenings". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 往事 means

1. past events
2. former happenings

The characters in 往事

• 往wǎngto go (in a direction); to; towards
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 照片使我忆起了很多往事。
  Zhàopiàn shǐ wǒ yì qǐ le hěn duō wǎngshì.
  The picture brought back a lot of memories.

Words starting with 往事

• 往事如风wǎng shì rú fēngthe past is vanished like the wind; gone beyond recall
• 往事已矣wǎng shì yǐ yǐthe past is dead (idiom)

Sounds the same

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

• 网室netted enclosure (protecting crops)

Where 往事 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wǎng shì correctly.
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