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农业

nóng yè

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

农业 (nóng yè) means "agriculture". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 农业 means

1. agriculture
2. farming

The characters in 农业

• 农nóng(bound form) agriculture
• 业yèline of business; industry; occupation

Example sentences

• 边境上有一片农业区。
  On the border, there is a stretch of agricultural land.
• 农业需要消耗的大量水。
  Nóngyè xūyào xiāohào de dàliàng shuǐ.
  Agriculture consumes a great amount of water.
• 农业需要消耗大量的水。
  Agriculture consumes a great amount of water.
• 这片地不适合发展农业。
  This land is not suitable for agriculture.
• 葡萄牙曾经是一个农业国。
  Pútáoyá céngjīng shì yī gè nóngyè guó.
  Portugal was once an agricultural country.
• 政府应该加大对农业的投资。
  The government should invest more money in agriculture.

Words starting with 农业

• 农业部Nóng yè bùMinistry of Agriculture; Department of Agriculture
• 农业区nóng yè qūagricultural region
• 农业国nóng yè guóagricultural country
• 农业厅nóng yè tīng(provincial) department of agriculture
• 农业生技nóng yè shēng jì(Taiwan) agricultural biotechnology; agritech
• 农业合作化nóng yè hé zuò huàcollectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)
• 农业现代化nóng yè xiàn dài huàmodernization of agriculture, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
• 农业集体化nóng yè jí tǐ huàcollectivization of agriculture (under communism)
• 农业机械nóng yè jī xièagricultural machinery
• 农业生产合作社nóng yè shēng chǎn hé zuò shèagricultural producers' cooperative

Words containing 农业

• 工农业gōng nóng yèindustry and agriculture
• 生存农业shēng cún nóng yèsubsistence farming; subsistence agriculture
• 中国农业银行Zhōng guó Nóng yè Yín hángAgricultural Bank of China
• 南京农业大学Nán jīng Nóng yè Dà xuéNanjing Agricultural University
• 酪农业lào nóng yè(Taiwan) dairy industry; dairy farming

Sounds the same

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

• 脓液pus

Where 农业 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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