| 事 | shì | matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件,桩 |
| 事业 | shì yè | undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:个 |
| 事物 | shì wù | thing; object; CL:个 |
| 事实 | shì shí | fact; CL:个 |
| 军事 | jūn shì | military affairs; military matters; military |
| 事情 | shì qíng | affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件,桩 |
| 从事 | cóng shì | to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do |
| 刑事 | xíng shì | criminal; penal |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | event; happening; incident; CL:个 |
| 故事 | gù shi | narrative; story; tale |
| 故事 | gù shì | old practice; CL:个 |
| 事实上 | shì shí shàng | in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto |
| 事故 | shì gù | accident; CL:桩,起,次 |
| 当事人 | dāng shì rén | persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair) |
| 事务 | shì wù | (political, economic etc) affairs; work |
| 办事 | bàn shì | to handle (affairs); to work; to run an errand (outside the office); to go on a business trip |
| 大事 | dà shì | major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; CL:件,桩 |
| 事项 | shì xiàng | matter; item |
| 民事 | mín shì | civil case; agricultural affairs; civil |
| 理事 | lǐ shì | member of council |
| 事先 | shì xiān | in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior |
| 实事求是 | shí shì qiú shì | to seek truth from facts (idiom); to be practical and realistic |
| 领事 | lǐng shì | consul |
| 事迹 | shì jì | deed; past achievement; important event of the past |
| 理事会 | lǐ shì huì | council |
| 好事 | hǎo shì | 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 |
| 事儿 | shìr | one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; erhua variant of 事, thing, matter, affair etc; CL:件,桩 |
| 事变 | shì biàn | unforeseen event; incident |
| 事例 | shì lì | example; exemplar; typical case |
| 心事 | xīn shì | a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗,桩 |
| 做事 | zuò shì | to work; to handle matters; to have a job |
| 事后 | shì hòu | after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect |
| 人事 | rén shì | human affairs; ways of the world; consciousness of the world; what is humanly possible; personnel matters; sexual awareness; sexual passion; facts of life |
| 本事 | běn shì | source material; original story |
| 本事 | běn shi | ability; skill |
| 同事 | tóng shì | colleague; co-worker; CL:个,位 |
| 军事基地 | jūn shì jī dì | military base |
| 议事 | yì shì | to discuss official business |
| 事前 | shì qián | in advance; before the event |
| 战事 | zhàn shì | fighting |
| 炊事员 | chuī shì yuán | cook; kitchen worker |
| 行事 | xíng shì | to execute; to handle; behavior; action; conduct |
| 办事处 | bàn shì chù | office; agency |
| 干事 | gàn shi | administrator; executive secretary |
| 喜事 | xǐ shì | happy occasion; wedding |
| 事宜 | shì yí | (make) arrangements |
| 政事 | zhèng shì | politics; government affairs |
| 公事 | gōng shì | public affairs; official (matters, duties etc) |
| 懂事 | dǒng shì | sensible; thoughtful; intelligent |
| 时事 | shí shì | current trends; the present situation; how things are going |
