故事(gù shì): old practice
old practice
Character breakdown
Watch how each character of 故事 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Word information
- Pinyin
- gù shì
- Meaning
- old practice
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- Same
Appears in lessons
故事 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 故事 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
故事十分有趣。
gù shì shí fēn yǒu qù
The story was very interesting.
他忙于写故事。
tā máng yú xiě gù shì
He is very busy writing stories.
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 故事 — tap one to open its word page.
to have spare time
deliberately; on purpose
affair; matter; thing; business
colleague; co-worker
good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed")
accident
home
incident; event
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