"Happening" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 故 |  gù | happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead |   |
| 实况 | shí kuàng | live (e.g. broadcast or recording) / what is actually happening / scene / the real situation | |
| 突如其来 | tū rú qí lái | to arise abruptly / to arrive suddenly / happening suddenly | |
| 惩前毖后 | chéng qián bì hòu | lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom) / to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again | |
| 变生肘腋 | biàn shēng zhǒu yè | lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom) / a major coup happening on one's doorstep / trouble or danger in one's own backyard | |
| 没有事 | méi yǒu shì | not a bit / nothing is up / nothing alarming is happening | |
