往
事

Past events in Chinese: 往事 (wǎng shì)

wǎng shì

past events

HSK 3.0 Levels 7-91 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1past events
  2. 2former happenings

Stroke order

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往
事

Zhuyin

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ㄨㄤˇ

wǎng

ㄨ/ uㄤ/ angˇ/ third tone

ㄕˋ

shì

ㄕ/ shˋ/ fourth tone

Example sentences

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  • 那些往事我早已忘记了。

    nà xiē wǎng shì wǒ zǎo yǐ wàng jì le。

    I have long forgotten those past events.

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Related words

往

wǎng

to go (in a direction)

事

shì

matter

事情

shì qing

affair

故事

gù shì

old practice

同事

tóng shì

colleague

往往

wǎng wǎng

usually

从事

cóng shì

to go for

军事

jūn shì

military affairs

人事

rén shì

personnel

事实

shì shí

fact

事物

shì wù

thing

事先

shì xiān

in advance

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HSK 3.0 Levels 7-9 vocabulary list

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