行事
xíng shì
Pinyin

Definition

行事
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xíng shì
  1. to execute
  2. to handle
  3. behavior
  4. action
  5. conduct

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

事
shì
  1. 1 matter
  2. 2 thing
  3. 3 item
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 affair
  6. 6 classifier: 件 jiàn
  7. 7 classifier: 桩 zhuāng
  8. 8 classifier: 回 huí
事情
shì qing
  1. 1 affair
  2. 2 matter
  3. 3 thing
  4. 4 business
  5. 5 classifier: 件 jiàn
  6. 6 classifier: 桩 zhuāng
事业
shì yè
  1. 1 undertaking
  2. 2 project
  3. 3 activity
  4. 4 (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause
  5. 5 publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation
  6. 6 career
  7. 7 occupation
  8. 8 classifier: 个 gè
同事
tóng shì
  1. 1 colleague
  2. 2 co-worker
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 classifier: 位 wèi
故事
gù shì
  1. 1 old practice
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
一目十行
yī mù shí háng
  1. 1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
  2. 2 to read very rapidly
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)

Sample Sentences

啊呀，你真是一根筋。我们这期不爆料，不等于一辈子不爆呀。见机行事嘛。
āyā ，nǐ zhēnshì yīgēnjīn 。wǒmen zhè qī bù bàoliào ，bù děngyú yībèizi bù bào yā 。jiànjīxíngshì ma 。
Agh, you are really stubborn. We're not going to release this story this time, but that doesn't mean we'll never release it. We have to do what the circumstances dictate.
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说是这样说，但毕竟还在试验阶段，谁都拿不出可靠的数据。而且事关重大，谁敢贸然行事啊。
shuōshìzhèyàngshuō ，dàn bìjìng háizài shìyàn jiēduàn ，shéi dōu nábùchū kěkào de shùjù 。érqiě shìguānzhòngdà ，shéi gǎn màorán xíngshì ā 。
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