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社会社會 shèhuì — society

shèhuì (fourth tone, falling)she4hui4

Traditional: 社會

society

HSK 4· HSK 1–4 (classic)noun
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Meanings

  1. society

    The whole web of people living together and depending on one another — not any one group but the shared structure everyone lives inside. It appears in compounds like 社会问题 (social problem) and 社会上 (out in society, the real world, as against school).

    noun

Character breakdown

  • 会會
    huì (fourth tone, falling) kuài (fourth tone, falling)

    to know how to, to be able to (through learning); to be likely to, will; a meeting, a gathering, an association; (kuài) only in 会计, accounting

    6 strokes⿱人云Radical 人

Example sentences

  • 这是一个很重要的社会问题。這是一個很重要的社會問題。Zhè (fourth tone, falling) shì (fourth tone, falling) yí (second tone, rising) ge (neutral tone) hěn (third tone, dipping) zhòngyào (fourth tone, falling) de (neutral tone) shèhuì (fourth tone, falling) wèntí. (fourth tone, falling)···

    This is a very important social issue.

  • 他很关心社会上的事情。他很關心社會上的事情。Tā (first tone, high and level) hěn (third tone, dipping) guānxīn (first tone, high and level) shèhuì (fourth tone, falling) shang (neutral tone) de (neutral tone) shìqing. (fourth tone, falling)···

    He cares a lot about things going on in society.

Common mistakes

  • Not quite社会都同意这个办法。

    Correct大家都同意这个办法。

    社会 names the abstract structure people live within; it does not act or speak as a group the way 大家 (everyone present) does. Name the people — 大家 — when they are the ones agreeing.

Similar words

Words containing 会