Business in Chinese
business · HSK 2
事情
- 事 thing
- 情 feeling
Counted with 件: 一件事情
我有件事情想跟你说。 There's something I want to tell you.
Other ways to say business
More words with 事 or 情
How do you say business in Chinese?
Business in Chinese is 事情 (shì qing). You can also say 生意 (shēng yi), 商家 (shāng jiā), 商务 (shāng wù), 商业 (shāng yè).
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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.