职业

Character by character

• 职zhí11 strokesHSK 3 traditional 職duty, profession; office, post
• 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

• 他们是职业歌手。

  Tā men shì zhí yè gē shǒu

  They're professional singers.

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• 他的职业是医生。

  Tā de zhí yè shì yī shēng

  He is a doctor by profession.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 职业. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 专业zhuān yèHSK 3

  specialty; specialized field; main field of study (at university); major; professional

• 事业shì yèHSK 3

  undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation

• 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

• 行业háng yèHSK 4

  trade; profession; industry; business

• 作业zuò yèHSK 2

  school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate

• 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

• 职责zhí zéHSK 6

  duty; responsibility; obligation

• 辞职cí zhíHSK 5

  to resign

• 产业chǎn yèHSK 5

  industry; estate; property; industrial

• 职位zhí wèiHSK 5

  position; post; job

• 失业shī yèHSK 4

  unemployment; to lose one's job

• 业余yè yúHSK 4

  in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)

• 职务zhí wùHSK 5

  post; position; job; duties

• 营业yíng yèHSK 4

  to do business; to trade

• 农业nóng yèHSK 3

  agriculture; farming

• 毕业生bì yè shēngHSK 4

  graduate

• 职员zhí yuánHSK 7

  office worker; staff member

• 开业kāi yèHSK 3

  to open a business; to open a practice; open (for business)

• 就业jiù yèHSK 3

  to get a job; employment

• 业绩yè jìHSK 7

  achievement; accomplishment; (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results