事务 shìwù▶ asunto

Stroke order

事务 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 事 — 8 strokes
• 务 — 5 strokes

Senses

1. (political, economic etc) affairs
2. work
3. transaction (as in a computer database)

Related words

• 事业carrera profesional
• 事件Evento
• 事态situación
• 事故Accidente
• 事迹Hecho; Historia
• 事项Materia; asunto

事务 is pronounced shìwù and means “asunto”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 事务 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.