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省事

xǐng shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

省事 (shěng shì) means "to simplify matters; to save trouble; perceptive; understanding; (archaic) to handle administrative work". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 省事 means

1. perceptive; understanding
2. archaicto handle administrative work

Other readings

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

• shěng shìto simplify matters; to save trouble

The characters in 省事

• 省shěngto save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Sounds the same

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

• 省视to call upon; to inspect

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