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Affair in Chinese

affair · HSK 1

事 shì

我有件事想问你。 There's something I want to ask you.

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How do you say affair in Chinese?

Affair in Chinese is 事 (shì). You can also say 事情 (shì qing).

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?

The CC-CEDICT 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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