喜事

xǐ shì

HSK 3.0 Level 6 Noun Rare

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good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, \a fine thing indeed\)

泛指令人高興的事情，但喜事更強調慶祝活動

Do not use 喜事 to refer to personal happy feelings; it denotes an event. For 'happiness', use 高興 or 幸福.

喜事 usually appears in spoken and written Chinese without strong formal/informal bias, but in formal invitations 喜慶 may replace it.

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他们家最近有一件喜事，儿子要结婚了。

Their family has a happy event recently: their son is getting married.

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weddings and funerals

matter

to be fond of