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故事

gùshi

story

Part of speech · noun

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Examples

给我讲个故事。
Tell me a story.
这是真实的故事。
This is a true story.

Collocations

一个故事讲故事真实故事

Mnemonic

故事 gùshi "story" — 故 (past) + 事 (event), literally "old happening". In daily Mandarin it covers any narrative. Korean/Japanese 故事 (gosa / koji) narrows to "classical anecdote" — false friend.

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