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业余

yè yú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 業餘

业余 (yè yú) means "in one's spare time; amateur". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 业余 means

1. in one's spare time
2. outside working hours
3. amateur (historian etc)

The characters in 业余

• 业yèline of business; industry; occupation
• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余

Example sentences

• 她称自己为业余爱好者
  Tā chēng zìjǐ wèi yèyú'àihàozhě
  She calls herself a hobbyist.
• 她称自己为业余爱好者。
  She calls herself a hobbyist.
• 我的业余爱好是拍野花的照片。
  Wǒ de yèyú àihào shì pāi yěhuā de zhàopiàn.
  My hobby is taking pictures of wild flowers.
• 观察鸟类是个很好的业余爱好。
  Bird watching is a nice hobby.
• 她把所有的业余时间都用在钓鱼上了。
  She devoted all her spare time to fishing.
• 即使像我们这样的业余爱好者也能看出它很糟糕。
  Even hobbyists like us can tell that it's bad.

Words starting with 业余

• 业余者yè yú zhěamateur
• 业余大学yè yú dà xuécollege for people who attend after work
• 业余教育yè yú jiào yùspare-time education; evening classes
• 业余爱好者yè yú ài hào zhěhobbyist; amateur

Where 业余 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Character, Brothers & Spare Time (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yè yú correctly.
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