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理事

lǐ shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

理事 (lǐ shì) means "member of council; (literary) to take care of matters". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 理事 means

1. member of council
2. literaryto take care of matters

The characters in 理事

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Words starting with 理事

• 理事会lǐ shì huìcouncil
• 理事长lǐ shì zhǎngdirector general

Words containing 理事

• 常任理事国cháng rèn lǐ shì guópermanent member state (of the UN Security Council)
• 安全理事会Ān quán Lǐ shì huì(United Nations) Security Council
• 常务理事cháng wù lǐ shìpermanent member of council
• 欧洲理事会Ōu zhōu Lǐ shì huìEuropean Council
• 联合国安全理事会Lián hé guó Ān quán Lǐ shì huìUnited Nations Security Council
• 外交关系理事会Wài jiāo Guān xì Lǐ shì huìCouncil on Foreign Relations (US policy think tank)
• 会计准则理事会kuài jì zhǔn zé lǐ shì huìaccounting standards council

Sounds the same

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

• 李氏the Korean Yi or Lee Dynasty (1392-1910)
• 里氏(seismology) Richter (scale)

Go deeper

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