Accident in Chinese
accident · HSK 5
事故
- 事 thing
- 故 reason
Counted with 起: 一起事故
昨天这条路上发生了一起交通事故。 There was a traffic accident on this road yesterday.
Other ways to say accident
More words with 事 or 故
How do you say accident in Chinese?
Accident in Chinese is 事故 (shì gù). You can also say 事 (shì), 意外 (yì wài), 长短 (cháng duǎn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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