事业
shì yè 4–4
undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation
- Characters
- 2
- 事 · 业
- Syllables
- 2
- shì yè
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,326
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 事shì8 strokesHSK 1affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
- 业yè5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 業profession, business; GB radical 111
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
新年！新事业！
Xīn nián xīn shì yè
New Year! New Career!
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 事业. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 事shìHSK 1
matter; thing; item; work; affair
- 事情shì qingHSK 2
affair; matter; thing; business
- 故事gù shìHSK 2
old practice
- 事件shì jiànHSK 3
event; happening; incident
- 事实shì shíHSK 3
fact
- 专业zhuān yèHSK 3
specialty; specialized field; main field of study (at university); major; professional
- 职业zhí yèHSK 3
occupation; profession; vocation; professional
- 事故shì gùHSK 3
accident
- 事实上shì shí shàngHSK 3
in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- 毕业bì yèHSK 4
graduation; to graduate; to finish school
- 商业shāng yèHSK 3
business; trade; commerce
- 企业qǐ yèHSK 4
company; firm; enterprise; corporation
- 同事tóng shìHSK 2
colleague; co-worker
- 行业háng yèHSK 4
trade; profession; industry; business
- 军事jūn shìHSK 6
military affairs; (attributive) military
- 作业zuò yèHSK 2
school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate
- 好事hǎo shìHSK 2
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
- 业yèHSK 7
line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already
- 业务yè wùHSK 5
business; professional work; service
- 工业gōng yèHSK 3
industry
- 从事cóng shìHSK 3
to go for; to engage in; to undertake; to deal with; to handle; to do
- 大事dà shìHSK 5
major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way
- 当事人dāng shì rénHSK 7
persons involved or implicated; party (to an affair)
- 事物shì wùHSK 4
thing; object