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时事

shí shì

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

时事 (shí shì) means "current trends; the present situation; how things are going". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 时事 means

1. current trends; the present situation; how things are going

The characters in 时事

• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Sounds the same

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

• 实事fact; actual thing; practical matter
• 时势current situation; circumstances; current trend
• 时式fashionable style; (linguistics) tense

Where 时事 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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