事務

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See also: 事务

Chinese

matter; thing; item
matter; thing; item; work; affair
 
 affair; business; matter
trad. (事務) 事 務
simp. (事务) 事 务

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 事 務
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 崇 (20) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 鉏吏切 亡遇切
Baxter dzriH mjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʒɨH/ /mɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖ͡ʐɨH/ /mioH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʒieH/ /mioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖ͡ʐɨH/ /muə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ʒiəH/ /mioH/
Wang
Li 		/d͡ʒĭəH/ /mĭuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɖ͡ʐʱiH/ /mi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhì wù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi6 mou6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 事 務
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shì wù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzriH › ‹ mjuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*rəʔ-s/ /*m(r)o-s/
English serve; service, affair exert oneself

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 事 務
Reading # 2/2 1/1
No. 11486 8849
Phonetic
component 		史 矛
Rime
group 		之 竇
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		事 務
Old
Chinese 		/*zrɯs/ /*moɡs/
Notes 史吏轉註字

Noun

事務

  1. routine work
  2. general affairs
    涉外事務／涉外事务  ―  shèwài shìwù  ―  foreign affairs
  3. (literary) secular affairs; worldly affairs
  4. (computing) transaction

Synonyms

  • (general affairs): 總務／总务 (zǒngwù)
  • (secular affairs):

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
事 務
じ
Grade: 3 		む
Grade: 5
goon

Pronunciation

Noun

事(じ)務(む) • (jimu) 

  1. business, clerical work
    こちらで事務(じむ)手続(てつづ)きを行(おこな)ってください。
    Kochira de jimu tetsuzuki o okonatte kudasai.
    Do your paperwork here.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
事務

Noun

事務 • (samu) (hangeul 사무)

  1. hanja form? of 사무 (“clerical work”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
事務

Noun

事務

  1. chữ Hán form of sự vụ.
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