同事 tóngshì▶ Colega

Stroke order

同事 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 同 — 6 strokes
• 事 — 8 strokes

Example sentences

• 他是我的新同事。Tā shì wǒ de xīn tóngshì.He is my new colleague.
• 我和同事一起吃午饭。Wǒ hé tóngshì yìqǐ chī wǔfàn.I have lunch together with my colleagues.

Related words

• 同意convenir
• 故事Historia, cuento
• 事情asunto
• 共同común
• 同情Simpatía
• 同时mientras tanto

同事 is pronounced tóngshì and means “Colega”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 同事 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.