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Mythic Mandarin

坏事 (huài shì): meaning and stroke order

坏事 (huài shì) means bad thing; misdeed, to ruin things.

坏事

Simplified
坏事
Traditional
壞事
Pinyin
huài shì

Stroke order of 坏事

坏

  • huài bad; spoiled
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 壞

Stroke by stroke

事

  • shì matter; thing
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 坏事

  1. huài shì Traditional 壞事
    • bad thing; misdeed
    • to ruin things

Radicals of the characters

坏
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 7 strokes · 土 on the left, 不 on the right
事
Radical 亅 (Kangxi radical 6) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

坏事 in our stories

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  • “今天他要回天上，向玉皇大帝报告我们家这一年做了什么好事、什么坏事。”

    jīntiān tā yào huí tiān shàng xiàng Yùhuáng Dàdì bàogào wǒmen jiā zhè yì nián zuò le shénme hǎoshì shénme huàishì

    "Today he goes back up to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on all the good and bad things our family has done this year."

    From the story Sweets for the Kitchen God HSK 5

  • 舅舅说：“这就是‘塞翁失马，焉知非福’。当然，这不是说坏事都会变成好事，而是说，别太早下结论。”

    jiùjiu shuō zhè jiù shì Sài wēng shī mǎ yān zhī fēi fú dāngrán zhè bú shì shuō huàishì dōu huì biànchéng hǎoshì érshì shuō bié tài zǎo xià jiélùn

    His uncle said, "That's 'the old frontiersman lost his horse; who knows it's not a blessing'. Of course, it doesn't mean every bad thing turns good. It means: don't jump to conclusions."

    From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

Stories using 坏事

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).