| 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 | 事件 | 事件 | shì jiàn | shi4 jian4 | event; happening; incident; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 6 | 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 | | |
| 7 | 事故 | 事故 | shì gù | shi4 gu4 | accident; Classifiers: 桩 | | |
| 8 | 事务 | 事務 | shì wù | shi4 wu4 | thing; object; Classifiers: 个 ; (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database) | | |
| 9 | 事迹 | 事跡 | shì jì | shi4 ji4 | deed; past achievement; important event of the past | | |
| 10 | 事先 | 事先 | shì xiān | shi4 xian1 | in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior | | |
| 11 | 事变 | 事變 | shì biàn | shi4 bian4 | incident; unforeseen event; events (in general) | | |
| 12 | 事后 | 事後 | shì hòu | shi4 hou4 | after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect | | |
| 13 | 事例 | 事例 | shì lì | shi4 li4 | example; exemplar; typical case | | |
| 14 | 事项 | 事項 | shì xiàng | shi4 xiang4 | matter; item | | |
| 15 | 事儿 | 事兒 | shì r | shi4 r5 | one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; erhua variant of 事 ; Classifiers: 件 ,桩 | | |
| 16 | 事故照射 | 事故照射 | shì gù zhào shè | shi4 gu4 zhao4 she4 | accidental exposure | | |
| 17 | 事关 | 事關 | shì guān | shi4 guan1 | to concern; on (some topic); about; concerning; to have importance for | | |
| 18 | 事到今日 | 事到今日 | shì dào jīn rì | shi4 dao4 jin1 ri4 | under the circumstances; the matter having come to that point | | |
| 19 | 事发地点 | 事發地點 | shì fā dì diǎn | shi4 fa1 di4 dian3 | the scene of the incident | | |
| 20 | 事大主义 | 事大主義 | shì dà zhǔ yì | shi4 da4 zhu3 yi4 | Sadaejuui, a foreign policy or ideology wherein a small country conveys goodwill or homage to a larger country by dispatching envoys to it (idiom) | | |
| 21 | 事出有因 | 事出有因 | shì chū yǒu yīn | shi4 chu1 you3 yin1 | there is good reason for sth. (idiom) | | |
| 22 | 事不宜迟 | 事不宜遲 | shì bù yí chí | shi4 bu4 yi2 chi2 | the matter should not be delayed; there's no time to lose | | |
| 23 | 事主 | 事主 | shì zhǔ | shi4 zhu3 | victim (of a criminal); party involved (in a dispute etc); main instigator | | |
| 24 | 事不关己 | 事不關己 | shì bù guān jǐ | shi4 bu4 guan1 ji3 | a matter of no concern to oneself (idiom) | | |
| 25 | 事必有因 | 事必有因 | shì bì yǒu yīn | shi4 bi4 you3 yin1 | Every why has a wherefore. (idiom) | | |