从事

从事 cóngshì in a sentence

Undertake (deal with - pursued - engaged in)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

从事 (cóngshì) means Undertake (deal with - pursued - engaged in). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他 从事 教育工作。

Tā cóngshì jiàoyù gōngzuò.

He works in education.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 从事

她一直 从事 研究工作。

Tā yìzhí cóngshì yánjiū gōngzuò.

She has always been engaged in research work.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 从事

他 从事 国际贸易。

Tā cóngshì guójì màoyì.

He works in international trade.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 贸易

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Questions about 从事

How is 从事 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 从事 (cóngshì, "Undertake (deal with - pursued - engaged in)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 从事 an HSK word?

Yes — 从事 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 从事?

The dictionary page for 从事 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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