HSK 6 · Media

时事 shíshì “current affairs” in Chinese

Traditional 時事

What 时事 means

  1. current affairs
  2. current events
  3. current trends
  4. the present situation
  5. how things are going

How to say 时事

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale时shí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale事shì4th tone, falling

时事 in a sentence

  1. 他组织了一场关于时事的课堂辩论。

    Tā zǔzhī le yì chǎng guānyú shíshì de kètáng biànlùn.

    He organised a class debate on current affairs.

    Sentence #13573498 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 时事 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 时 (shí) with each of its parts in a different colour
时shío’clock
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 寸inch · cùn

Memory aidThe sun 日 marks the time of day. In the full form 時, 寺 (sì) gave the sound.

The character 事 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
事shìmatter
  • 一one · yī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 彐snout · jì
  • 亅hook · jué

How to write 时事

时 7 strokes · 事 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

时事 (shíshì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 时事 (shíshì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 时事

Words with 时

时候shíhou · time时shí · o’clock小时xiǎoshí · hour时间shíjiān · time有时yǒushí · sometimes小时候xiǎoshíhou · in one’s childhood当时dāngshí · then平时píngshí · ordinarily同时tóngshí · at the same time暂时zànshí · temporary

Words with 事

事shì · matter没事méishì · it’s nothing事情shìqing · matter同事tóngshì · colleague故事gùshi · story从事cóngshì · to engage in人事rénshì · personnel军事jūnshì · military affairs事实shìshí · fact事物shìwù · thing

More words: Media & Arts

曲子qǔzi · tune散文sǎnwén · prose声明shēngmíng · statement审美shěnměi · aesthetic书法shūfǎ · calligraphy书籍shūjí · books题材tícái · subject matter体裁tǐcái · genre

FAQs

时事 (shíshì) means “current affairs” or “current events”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shíshì: shí with a 2nd tone, then shì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 时事 is written 時事. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shishi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 时事 from the suggestions. Typing shishi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
时事 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.