往事(wǎng shì)

HSK 7-92 characters

past events

Character breakdown

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Example sentences

How 往事 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.

  • 往事不堪回首。

    wǎng shì bù kān huí shǒu

    It is too sad to recall the past.

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