件
Meaning
- item
- component
- classifier for events, things, clothes etc
Example sentence
这是件坏事。
This is a bad thing.
The character 件
件 is 亻 beside 牛, and it counts things you can pick out singly: 一件事, 一件衣服. Inside a word it is a piece of something larger — 文件 a document, 条件 a condition, 事件 an incident.