# 事件 (shìjiàn)

In Mandarin Chinese, 事件 (shìjiàn) means “incident; event”. It is part of the HSK 3 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: incident; event
- Pinyin: shìjiàn (shi4 jian4)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 3
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 这起事件引起了大家的注意。
  Zhè jiàn shìjiàn yǐnqǐle dàjiā de zhùyì.
  This incident attracted everyone's attention.

## Characters

- [事](https://hanziro.com/word/shi-matter/) (shì): matter; thing
- [件](https://hanziro.com/word/jian-items-clothes/) (jiàn): (measure word) for items, clothes

https://hanziro.com/word/shi-jian-incident/

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