affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]

it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble)

old practice

narrative; story; tale

what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about?

fact; CL:個|个[ge4]

to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter

in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto

incident; event

one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; erhua variant of 事[shi4]; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]

(old) to report to one's master

good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed"); charity; happy occasion; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead

to be meddlesome

colleague; co-worker

to work; to handle matters; to have a job

undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]

accident; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3],次[ci4]

thing; object

to have an accident; to meet with a mishap

this matter

major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]

bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things

source material; original story

ability; skill

to execute; to handle; behavior; action; conduct

military affairs; (attributive) military

trifle; trivial matter; CL:點|点[dian3]

to have spare time; free from work; it's not important; it's nothing; never mind

in advance; before the event; beforehand; prior

to handle (affairs); to work

persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)

to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do

urgent matter

business office; firm

board of directors

to be finished (with sth)

after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect

folly

to work together

personal matters

(political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)

situation; existing state of affairs

one's proper business

work-related matters; documents

past events; former happenings

everything

a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1]

board member

(vulgar) trifling matter; mere trifle; goddamn thing; goddamn business