VocabularyHSK 3 · core

同事

tóngshì

colleague

Part of speech · noun

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同same
冂kamae一one口mouth
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事matter
口mouth⺕亅
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Examples

  1. 我同事很好。
    My colleagues are nice.
  2. 一位同事。
    A colleague.

Collocations

一位同事同事关系老同事

Mnemonic

同事 tóngshì "colleague" — 同 (same) + 事 (work) = "person doing the same work". Japanese 同僚 dōryō uses different second character. ZH 同事 covers any workplace colleague.

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