Zi:事

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[shì] thing/event; 事​ matter/thing, business/situation; 事​ incident; ​事 deal with; (HDZ:) ​, ​; ​; 事​; … [] ​: ​, ​; ​/​: ​, ​

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The Shuōwén Seal form of 事 shì ‘official duties/rank’ (事​, ​事) is said to combine ​(​) shǐ ‘history’, and ​(​𡳿) zhī ‘go forth’ (abbrev. phonetic); the traditional duties entrusted to an officer of a certain feudal/hereditary rank; formerly wr. ​𠭏, with a central shape like old forms of ​ gǔ ‘ancient/old’ or ​(​𠰛) gào ‘report’, rather than ​ ‘center’.
    Note: The received SW entry for ​ niú ‘horned/humped-ox’ is emended to begin with a visual pun on 事(​𠭏) shì ‘do/deed/thing; ability’ (DYC); cf. ​.
    Compare: ​ shì ‘scholar’ (doer of deeds); ​(​) shǐ ‘history’; ​ lì ‘officer’; ​使 shǐ ‘cause/send’, ​ sì ‘government official’.
    Compare: ​ zì ‘erect/found/establish; stab’, ​ zì ‘stab; plant’; ​𤰫(​𨛝) bāng ‘city-state’.
    Compare: ​(​𠬢) tāo ‘idle/frivolous; to take’ (as in ​, ​).
    Various old forms now associated with 事 and other characters look similar to each other: a hand holding some kind of thing/object (cf. ​).
    HDZ: 事 : shì : (SW: ​) ​, ​ (​事); ​; 事​; 事​, ​; ​, ​; ​; ​ (​事, ​事); ​; ​, ​事; ​, ​; ​; ​使; (​) ​, ​; ​; (​) • zì : ​: ​, ​ (cf. ​𤰫/​); ​/​: ​, ​
    HDC: ​事 : ​, ​; ​; ​, ​
    HDC: 事​ : (​) ​; ​, ​; ​
►references: Guǎngyùn:357.07,358.04; Wieger:44h; Karlgren:AD889,GSR971a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.23.3; Mathews:5787; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:85.24; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:074.0.10; Wáng(1993):67; EDOC:1
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