occupation; job; employment

HSK 3 #130

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 130th character
Radical ⼀ (1.4)
Strokes 5
Index # 231
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

业 yè
  1. 1. occupation
  2. 2. job
  3. 3. employment
  4. 4. industry
  5. 5. line of business
  6. 6. enterprise
  7. 7. school studies
  8. 8. to engage in
  9. 9. deed
  10. 10. property
  11. 11. (Buddhism) karma
  12. 12. surname Ye
  13. 13. already

Stroke order

业 stroke order diagram
业 stroke order animation

Words containing 业

Word Meaning
all walks of life; all professions; every trade
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
family firm producing a special product; cottage industry
mining industry
not to attend to one's proper duties
part-time college (abbr. for yè yú dà xué)
great cause; great undertaking
industrialist
already
great undertaking; exploit
manufacturing industry
building industry
film industry
to await job assignment (term used only in mainland China)
to get married and start a career (idiom); to settle down
tourism industry
clerk; shop assistant
main business
foundation; base; family estate
industrialization; to industrialize
professionalization
schoolwork; lesson
owner of enterprise
specialization
livestock husbandry; animal product industry