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事业

shì yè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 事業 Measure word 个

事业 (shì yè) means "undertaking; career; cause". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 事业 means

1. undertaking
2. project
3. activity
4. (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause
5. publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation
6. career
7. occupation

The characters in 事业

• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 业yèline of business; industry; occupation

Example sentences

• 新年！新事业！
  New Year! New Career!
• 事业会很快重振。
  Shìyè huì hěn kuài chóngzhèn.
  Business will recover soon.

Words starting with 事业

• 事业心shì yè xīndevotion to one's work; professional ambition
• 事业有成shì yè yǒu chéngto be successful in business; professional success
• 事业单位shì yè dān wèipublic service institution (e.g. schools, hospitals); (Taiwan) business enterprise…
• 事业线shì yè xiàn(palmistry) fate line; career prospects line…
• 事业编shì yè biānstaffing quota for public service institutions; (by extension) a quota-based position in…

Words containing 事业

• 社会事业shè huì shì yèsocial enterprise
• 公共事业gōng gòng shì yèpublic utility; state-run enterprise; public foundation or enterprise, often charitable
• 公益事业gōng yì shì yèservice to the public; public welfare undertaking; charity
• 福利事业fú lì shì yèwelfare services
• 航空事业háng kōng shì yèaviation industry

Sounds the same

Read shì yè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 试液reagent; test solution; experimental liquid

Where 事业 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shì (2) (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì yè correctly.
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