同事

Character by character

• 同tóng6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 衕same, similar; together with
• 事shì8 strokesHSK 1affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 同事. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 事shìHSK 1

  matter; thing; item; work; affair

• 事情shì qingHSK 2

  affair; matter; thing; business

• 同tóngHSK 6

  like; same; similar; together; alike; with

• 不同bù tóngHSK 2

  different; distinct; not the same; not alike

• 同时tóng shíHSK 2

  at the same time; simultaneously

• 故事gù shìHSK 2

  old practice

• 同样tóng yàngHSK 2

  same; equal; equivalent

• 事件shì jiànHSK 3

  event; happening; incident

• 同意tóng yìHSK 3

  to agree; to consent; to approve

• 事实shì shíHSK 3

  fact

• 同志tóng zhìHSK 7

  comrade; (slang) homosexual

• 事业shì yèHSK 3

  undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation

• 事故shì gùHSK 3

  accident

• 事实上shì shí shàngHSK 3

  in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto

• 共同gòng tóngHSK 3

  common; joint; jointly; together; collaborative

• 合同hé tongHSK 4

  (business) contract

• 同学tóng xuéHSK 1

  to study at the same school; fellow student; classmate

• 相同xiāng tóngHSK 2

  identical; same

• 军事jūn shìHSK 6

  military affairs; (attributive) military

• 好事hǎo shìHSK 2

  good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead

• 从事cóng shìHSK 3

  to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do

• 大事dà shìHSK 5

  major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way

• 当事人dāng shì rénHSK 7

  persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)

• 事物shì wùHSK 4

  thing; object