业

business, industry; line of work

No. 81 most used

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

Looks like a craftsman's rack: a trade.

Words

• 事业

  shì yè

  undertaking; project; activity
• 专业

  zhuān yè

  specialty; specialized field; main field of study (at university)
• 职业

  zhí yè

  occupation; profession; vocation; professional
• 毕业

  bì yè

  graduation; to graduate; to finish school
• 企业

  qǐ yè

  company; firm; enterprise; corporation; CL:家
• 商业

  shāng yè

  business; trade; commerce

Sentences

• 我有很多作业要做。

  wǒ yǒu hěn duō zuò yè yào zuò

  I have a lot of homework to do.
• 我正在做我的作业。

  wǒ zhèng zài zuò wǒ de zuò yè

  I'm doing my homework.
• 完了，我还没做作业！

  wán le wǒ hái méi zuò zuò yè

  Crap, I didn't do the homework!
• 我还没做完作业。

  wǒ hái méi zuò wán zuò yè

  I have not finished my homework yet.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.