| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 事 | 事 | shì | - matter - thing - item - work - affair - CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] |
| 务 | 務 | wù | - affair - business - matter |
| 物 | 物 | wù | - thing - object - matter - abbr. for physics 物理 |
| 縡 | 縡 | zài | - matter - affair |
| 事情 | 事情 | shìqing | - affair - matter - thing - business - CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] |
| 事由 | 事由 | shìyóu | - main content - matter - work - origin of an incident - cause - purpose - subject (of business letter) |
| 事项 | 事項 | shìxiàng | - matter - item |
| 物事 | 物事 | wùshì | - affair - matter - thing - business - articles - goods - materials - thing - stuff - person (derog.) |
| 物质 | 物質 | wùzhì | - matter - substance - material - materialistic - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 质料 | 質料 | zhìliào | - material - matter |
| 嘢 | 嘢 | yě | - thing - matter (Cantonese) - see also 乜嘢[mie1 ye3] |
| 不管 | 不管 | bùguǎn | - no matter (what, how) - regardless of - no matter |
| 主流 | 主流 | zhǔliú | - main stream (of a river) - fig. the essential point - main viewpoint of a matter - mainstream (culture etc) |
| 了了 | 了了 | liǎoliǎo | - to realize clearly - to settle a matter - to get it over with |
| 了事 | 了事 | liǎoshì | - to dispose of a matter - to be done with it |
| 事儿 | 事兒 | shìr | - one's employment - business - matter that needs to be settled - erhua variant of 事[shi4] - CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] |
| 事机 | 事機 | shìjī | - confidential aspects of a matter - secrets - key moment for action |
| 儿戏 | 兒戲 | érxì | - child's play - trifling matter |
| 别论 | 別論 | biélùn | - a different matter - another story - (old) objection |
| 实事 | 實事 | shíshì | - fact - actual thing - practical matter |
| 实物 | 實物 | shíwù | - material object - concrete object - original object - in kind - object for practical use - definite thing - reality - matter (physics) |
| 小事 | 小事 | xiǎoshì | - trifle - trivial matter - CL:點|点[dian3] |
| 小节 | 小節 | xiǎojié | - a minor matter - trivia - bar (music) |
| 屁事 | 屁事 | pìshì | - (vulgar) trifling matter - mere trifle - goddamn thing - goddamn business |
| 底细 | 底細 | dǐxì | - inside information - the ins and outs of the matter - how things stand - what's up |
| 微尘 | 微塵 | wēichén | - dust - (Buddhism) minutest particle of matter |
| 忽微 | 忽微 | hūwēi | - minuscule quantity - minor matter |
| 急务 | 急務 | jíwù | - urgent task - pressing matter |
| 戏言 | 戲言 | xìyán | - joking matter - to go back on one's words |
| 有事 | 有事 | yǒushì | - to be occupied with sth - to have sth on one's mind - there is something the matter |
| 某事 | 某事 | mǒushì | - something - a certain matter |
| 乐子 | 樂子 | lèzi | - fun - pleasure - laughing matter |
| 歇心 | 歇心 | xiēxīn | - to drop the matter - to stop worrying |
| 死心 | 死心 | sǐxīn | - to give up - to admit failure - to drop the matter - to reconcile oneself to loss - to have no more illusions about |
| 无妨 | 無妨 | wúfáng | - no harm (in doing it) - One might as well. - It won't hurt. - no matter - it's no bother |
| 异事 | 異事 | yìshì | - sth else - a separate matter - not the same thing - with different jobs (not colleagues) - a remarkable thing - sth special - an odd thing - sth strange or incomprehensible |
| 异物 | 異物 | yìwù | - rarity - rare delicacy - foreign matter - alien body - the dead - ghost - monstrosity - alien life-form |
| 盘错 | 盤錯 | páncuò | - intertwined (of tree roots or branches) - fig. an intricate matter |
| 碍事 | 礙事 | àishì | - (usu used in the negative) to be of importance or to matter - to be in the way - to be a hindrance |
| 脑髓 | 腦髓 | nǎosuǐ | - brain tissue - gray matter - brain - medulla |
| 胶质 | 膠質 | jiāozhì | - colloid - gelatinous matter |
| 自问 | 自問 | zìwèn | - to ask oneself - to search one's soul - to reach a conclusion after weighing a matter |
| 旧事 | 舊事 | jiùshì | - old affair - former matter |
| 落尘 | 落塵 | luòchén | - dust fall - fallout (volcanic, nuclear etc) - particulate matter |
| 要事 | 要事 | yàoshì | - important matter |
| 诸事 | 諸事 | zhūshì | - everything - every matter |
| 追问 | 追問 | zhuīwèn | - to question closely - to investigate in detail - to examine minutely - to get to the heart of the matter |
| 降尘 | 降塵 | jiàngchén | - dust fall - fallout (volcanic, nuclear etc) - particulate matter |
| 题材 | 題材 | tícái | - subject matter |
| 髓脑 | 髓腦 | suǐnǎo | - brains - gray matter |
| 不打紧 | 不打緊 | bùdǎjǐn | - unimportant - not serious - it doesn't matter - never mind |
| 不要紧 | 不要緊 | bùyàojǐn | - unimportant - not serious - it doesn't matter - never mind - it looks all right, but |
| 悬浮物 | 懸浮物 | xuánfúwù | - suspended matter - suspension (of atmospheric pollution) |
| 有机物 | 有機物 | yǒujīwù | - organic substance - organic matter |
| 没什么 | 沒甚麼 | méishénme | - nothing - it doesn't matter - it's nothing - never mind |
| 没关系 | 沒關係 | méiguānxi | - it doesn't matter |
| 无所谓 | 無所謂 | wúsuǒwèi | - to be indifferent - not to matter - cannot be said to be |
| 甩包袱 | 甩包袱 | shuǎibāofu | - lit. to fling off a bundle - fig. to abandon one's responsibility for sth - to wash one's hands of the matter |
| 管他呢 | 管他呢 | guǎntāne | - don’t worry about (it, him etc) - doesn’t matter - whatever - anyway |
| 管他的 | 管他的 | guǎntāde | - don’t worry about (it, him etc) - doesn’t matter - whatever - anyway |
| 切中时弊 | 切中時弊 | qièzhòngshíbì | - to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target - to hit the nub of the matter |
| 区区小事 | 區區小事 | qūqūxiǎoshì | - trivial matter - trifle |
| 多大点事 | 多大點事 | duōdàdiǎnshì | - trivial matter - Big deal! |
| 大题小作 | 大題小作 | dàtíxiǎozuò | - to cut a long story short - a brief treatment of a complicated subject - fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter |
| 如数家珍 | 如數家珍 | rúshǔjiāzhēn | - lit. as if enumerating one's family valuables (idiom) - fig. to be very familiar with a matter |
| 存亡攸关 | 存亡攸關 | cúnwángyōuguān | - a make-or-break matter - a matter of life and death |
| 小事一桩 | 小事一樁 | xiǎoshìyīzhuāng | - trivial matter - a piece of cake |
| 悬浮微粒 | 懸浮微粒 | xuánfúwēilì | - particulates - particulate matter |
| 生死存亡 | 生死存亡 | shēngsǐcúnwáng | - matter of life and death |
| 生死攸关 | 生死攸關 | shēngsǐyōuguān | - matter of life and death |
| 当务之急 | 當務之急 | dāngwùzhījí | - top priority job - matter of vital importance |
| 芝麻小事 | 芝麻小事 | zhīmaxiǎoshì | - trivial matter - trifle |
| 草草收场 | 草草收場 | cǎocǎoshōuchǎng | - to rush to conclude a matter - to end up abruptly |
| 要死要活 | 要死要活 | yàosǐyàohuó | - desperate - matter of life or death |
| 追根究底 | 追根究底 | zhuīgēnjiūdǐ | - to get to the heart of the matter |
| 郑重其事 | 鄭重其事 | zhèngzhòngqíshì | - serious about the matter |
| 重于泰山 | 重於泰山 | zhòngyúTàiShān | - heavier than Mt Tai (idiom); fig. extremely serious matter |
| 鸡毛蒜皮 | 雞毛蒜皮 | jīmáosuànpí | - chicken feather, garlic skin (idiom); trivial matter - kitchen trash |
| 非同小可 | 非同小可 | fēitóngxiǎokě | - extremely important - no small matter |
| 面授机宜 | 面授機宜 | miànshòujīyí | - to give direct instructions on the way to deal with a matter - to brief personally (idiom) |
| 三七二十一 | 三七二十一 | sānqīèrshíyī | - three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) - the facts of the matter - the actual situation |
| 摸不着头脑 | 摸不著頭腦 | mōbuzháotóunǎo | - to be unable to make any sense of the matter - to be at a loss |
| 割鸡焉用牛刀 | 割雞焉用牛刀 | gējīyānyòngniúdāo | - lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) - fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter - also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[sha1 ji1 yan1 yong4 niu2 dao1] |
| 物质文明和精神文明 | 物質文明和精神文明 | wùzhìwénmínghéjīngshénwénmíng | - material and spiritual culture - matter and mind - material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978) |
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