| 1 | 事 | 事 | shì | shi4 | matter; thing; item; work; affair; Classifiers: 件 | | |
| 2 | 事实 | 事實 | shì shí | shi4 shi2 | fact; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 3 | 事情 | 事情 | shì qing | shi4 qing5 | affair; matter; thing; business; Classifiers: 件 | | |
| 4 | 事业 | 事業 | shì yè | shi4 ye4 | undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 5 | 军事 | 軍事 | jūn shì | jun1 shi4 | military affairs; military matters; military | | |
| 6 | 故事 | 故事 | gù shì | gu4 shi4 | old practice; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 7 | 从事 | 從事 | cóng shì | cong2 shi4 | to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do | | |
| 8 | 事件 | 事件 | shì jiàn | shi4 jian4 | event; happening; incident; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 9 | 事实上 | 事實上 | shì shí shàng | shi4 shi2 shang4 | in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto | | |
| 10 | 办事 | 辦事 | bàn shì | ban4 shi4 | to handle (affairs); to work | | |
| 11 | 事故 | 事故 | shì gù | shi4 gu4 | accident; Classifiers: 桩 | | |
| 12 | 大事 | 大事 | dà shì | da4 shi4 | major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; Classifiers: 件 | | |
| 13 | 当事人 | 當事人 | dāng shì rén | dang1 shi4 ren2 | persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair) | | |
| 14 | 事务 | 事務 | shì wù | shi4 wu4 | thing; object; Classifiers: 个 ; (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database) | | |
| 15 | 实事求是 | 實事求是 | shí shì qiú shì | shi2 shi4 qiu2 shi4 | to seek truth from facts (idiom); to be practical and realistic | | |
| 16 | 事迹 | 事跡 | shì jì | shi4 ji4 | deed; past achievement; important event of the past | | |
| 17 | 好事 | 好事 | hǎo shì | hao3 shi4 | 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 | | |
| 18 | 好事 | 好事 | hào shì | hao4 shi4 | to be meddlesome | | |
| 19 | 事先 | 事先 | shì xiān | shi4 xian1 | in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior | | |
| 20 | 人事 | 人事 | rén shì | ren2 shi4 | personnel; human resources; human affairs; ways of the world; (euphemism) sexuality; the facts of life | | |
| 21 | 怎么回事 | 怎麼回事 | zěn me huí shì | zen3 me5 hui2 shi4 | what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? | | |
| 22 | 本事 | 本事 | běn shì | ben3 shi4 | source material; original story | | |
| 23 | 刑事 | 刑事 | xíng shì | xing2 shi4 | to execute; to handle; behavior; action; conduct; criminal; penal | | |
| 24 | 同事 | 同事 | tóng shì | tong2 shi4 | colleague; co-worker; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 25 | 事变 | 事變 | shì biàn | shi4 bian4 | incident; unforeseen event; events (in general) | | |