Chinese symbol for “affairs”
事务
shì wù
Traditional: 事務
(political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for affairs is 事务 (shì wù), defined as: (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “affairs”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 事务.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 故事 | gù shì | old practice |
| 军事 (軍事) | jūn shì | military affairs; (attributive) military |
| 事实 (事實) | shì shí | fact; 个 (gè) |
| 服务 (服務) | fú wù | to serve; service |
| 任务 (任務) | rèn wu | mission; assignment; task; duty; role; 项 (xiàng) |
| 业务 (業務) | yè wù | business; professional work |
See also: Japanese symbol for “affairs”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.