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Mythic Mandarin

同事 (tóng shì): meaning and stroke order

同事 (tóng shì) means colleague; co-worker.

同事

Simplified
同事
Traditional
同事 (same form)
Pinyin
tóng shì

Stroke order of 同事

同

  • tóng like; same
  • tòng used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]
  • tòng used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 衕

Stroke by stroke

事

  • shì matter; thing
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 同事

  1. tóng shì
    • colleague; co-worker

Radicals of the characters

同
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · built from 冂 and 𠮛
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.

同事 in our stories

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  • 郑浩和两个同事星期六一起去爬山。

    Zhèng Hào hé liǎng gè tóngshì xīngqīliù yìqǐ qù páshān

    Zheng Hao and two colleagues went hiking on Saturday.

    From the story No umbrella HSK 3

  • 公司的同事吴迪很爱开玩笑，他说女孩子连一个引体向上都做不了。

    gōngsī de tóngshì Wú Dí hěn ài kāi wánxiào tā shuō nǚháizi lián yí gè yǐntǐ xiàngshàng dōu zuò bú le

    Wu Di, a colleague at the office, loved to joke. He said girls couldn't even do a single pull-up.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

  • 同事宋岩提前提醒他：“在中国，主人最怕客人吃不饱，你可一定要多吃点儿。”

    tóngshì Sòng Yán tíqián tíxǐng tā zài Zhōngguó zhǔrén zuì pà kèrén chī bù bǎo nǐ kě yídìng yào duō chī diǎnr

    His colleague Song Yan warned him beforehand: "In China, a host's biggest fear is that the guests go hungry. Make sure you eat plenty."

    From the story The banquet that never ended HSK 6

Stories using 同事

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).