| 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 |
| 事情 | shì qíng | affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件,桩 |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | event; happening; incident; 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 |
| 事务 | shì wù | (political, economic etc) affairs; work |
| 事项 | shì xiàng | matter; item |
| 事先 | shì xiān | in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior |
| 事迹 | shì jì | deed; past achievement; important event of the past |
| 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 |
| 事后 | shì hòu | after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect |
| 事前 | shì qián | in advance; before the event |
| 事宜 | shì yí | (make) arrangements |
| 事事 | shì shì | everything |
| 事态 | shì tài | situation; existing state of affairs |
| 事体 | shì tǐ | things; affairs; decorum |
| 事理 | shì lǐ | reason; logic |
| 事由 | shì yóu | main content; matter; work; origin of an incident; cause; purpose; subject (of business letter) |
| 事端 | shì duān | disturbance; incident |
| 事权 | shì quán | position; authority; responsibility |
| 事与愿违 | shì yǔ yuàn wéi | things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom) |
| 事事拗违 | shì shì ào wéi | everything has gone to the dogs (idiom) |
| 事件相关电位 | shì jiàn xiāng guān diàn wèi | event-related potential |
| 事假 | shì jià | leave of absence |
| 事先通知 | shì xiān tōng zhī | preliminary notification; to announce in advance |
| 事典 | shì diǎn | encyclopedia |
| 事到临头 | shì dào lín tóu | things come to a head (idiom) |
| 事务律师 | shì wù lǜ shī | solicitor (law) |
| 事务所 | shì wù suǒ | business office |
| 事务所律师 | shì wù suǒ lǜ shī | office lawyer |
| 事务繁忙 | shì wù fán máng | busy; bustling |
| 事势 | shì shì | state of affairs |
| 事半功倍 | shì bàn gōng bèi | half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results; a stitch in time saves nine |
| 事危累卵 | shì wēi lěi luǎn | lit. the matter has become a pile of eggs (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture |
| 事在人为 | shì zài rén wéi | the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort; With effort, one can achieve anything. |
| 事奉 | shì fèng | to serve |
| 事实胜于雄辩 | shì shí shèng yú xióng biàn | facts speak louder than words (idiom) |
| 事实婚 | shì shí hūn | common-law marriage; de facto marriage |
| 事实求是 | shì shí qiú shì | to seek the truth from facts |
| 事后聪明 | shì hòu cōng ming | wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it |
| 事后诸葛亮 | shì hòu Zhū gě Liàng | a genius in retrospect (idiom); hindsight is 20-20 |
| 事必有兆 | shì bì yǒu zhào | future events always have an omen (idiom) |
| 事必躬亲 | shì bì gōng qīn | to attend to everything personally |
| 事怕行家 | shì pà háng jiā | an expert always produces the best work (idiom) |
| 事情要做 | shì qíng yào zuò | work that needs to be done; business that needs to be attended to |
