从事
cóng shì 2–4
to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do
- Characters
- 2
- 从 · 事
- Syllables
- 2
- cóng shì
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 3,339
Part of speech: v
Character by character
- 从cóng4 strokesHSK 1 traditional 從from, by, since, whence, through
- 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 从事. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 从cóngHSK 1
from; through; via; to follow; to obey; to engage in (an activity); never (in negative sentence); (Taiwan pr. [zòng]) retainer; assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
- 事shìHSK 1
matter; thing; item; work; affair
- 事情shì qingHSK 2
affair; matter; thing; business
- 故事gù shìHSK 2
old practice
- 事件shì jiànHSK 3
event; happening; incident
- 事实shì shíHSK 3
fact
- 从来cóng láiHSK 3
always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- 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
- 自从zì cóngHSK 3
since (a time); ever since
- 同事tóng shìHSK 2
colleague; co-worker
- 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
- 从未cóng wèiHSK 7
never
- 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
- 董事会dǒng shì huìHSK 7
board of directors
- 从此cóng cǐHSK 4
from now on; since then; henceforth
- 事务所shì wù suǒHSK 7
office; firm
- 从没cóng méiHSK 6
never (in the past); never did
- 从而cóng érHSK 5
thus; thereby
- 事务shì wùHSK 7
(political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)