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故事

gù shì

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

故事 (gù shì) means "story". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 故事 means

1. old practice

Other readings

故事 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• gù shinarrative; story; tale

The characters in 故事

• 故gùhappening; instance; reason
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 故事很有趣。
  The story was amusing.
• 故事十分有趣。
  The story was very interesting.
• 他忙于写故事。
  He is very busy writing stories.
• 我想听个故事！
  I want to hear a story!
• 他编了这个故事。
  Tā biān le zhège gùshi.
  He made up the story.
• 她喜欢童话故事。
  Tā xǐhuan tónghuà gùshì.
  She likes fairy tales.

Words starting with 故事

• 故事片gù shi piànfictional film; feature film
• 故事线gù shi xiànstoryline; plotline

Words containing 故事

• 民间故事mín jiān gù shifolk story; folktale
• 神话故事shén huà gù shimythical story; myth
• 童话故事tóng huà gù shìfairy tale
• 虚应故事xū yìng gù shìto go through the motions
• 鬼故事guǐ gù shighost story
• 枕边故事zhěn biān gù shibedtime story
• 坎特伯雷故事集Kǎn tè bó léi Gù shì JíThe Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 乔叟
• 毛泽东：鲜为人知的故事Máo Zé dōng : Xiān wéi rén zhī de Gù shiMao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 张戎

Sounds the same

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

• 故世to die; to pass away

Where 故事 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Entertainment, Arts & Media (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 gù shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.