本事

Character by character

• 本běn5 strokesHSK 1root, origin, source; basis
• 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 本事. 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

• 本běnHSK 1

  root; stem; origin; source; this; the current; original; inherent; originally; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

• 事情shì qingHSK 2

  affair; matter; thing; business

• 根本gēn běnHSK 3

  fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all

• 故事gù shìHSK 2

  old practice

• 事件shì jiànHSK 3

  event; happening; incident

• 事实shì shíHSK 3

  fact

• 本来běn láiHSK 3

  original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course

• 基本jī běnHSK 3

  basic; fundamental; main; elementary

• 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

• 同事tóng shìHSK 2

  colleague; co-worker

• 本身běn shēnHSK 6

  itself; in itself; per se

• 军事jūn shìHSK 6

  military affairs; (attributive) military

• 本人běn rénHSK 5

  I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

• 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

• 原本yuán běnHSK 7

  originally; original

• 从事cóng shìHSK 3

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

• 本地běn dìHSK 6

  local; this locality

• 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