Chinese symbol for “trying”
事儿
shì r
Traditional: 事兒
one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding
The closest CC-CEDICT match for trying is 事儿 (shì r), defined as: one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “trying”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 事儿.
| 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) |
| 儿子 (兒子) | ér zi | son |
| 女儿 (女兒) | nǚ ér | daughter |
| 儿童 (兒童) | ér tóng | child |
See also: Japanese symbol for “trying”.
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.