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失业

shī yè

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

失业 (shī yè) means "unemployment". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 失业 means

1. unemployment
2. to lose one's job

The characters in 失业

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 业yèline of business; industry; occupation

Example sentences

• 他失业了。
  He has lost his job.
• 数千人失业。
  Thousands of people lost their jobs.
• 失业率上升到5%。
  The unemployment rate went up to 5%.
• 毕业就等同于失业。
  Graduating is like losing your job.
• 目前的失业率是多少？
  Mùqián de shīyèlǜ shì duōshao?
  What is the unemployment rate at the moment?
• 讨论的重点是失业问题。
  In the discussion the accent was on unemployment.

Words starting with 失业

• 失业率shī yè lǜunemployment rate
• 失业者shī yè zhěan unemployed person

Words containing 失业

• 半失业bàn shī yèsemi-employed; partly employed; underemployed

Where 失业 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Urgency, Loss & Destruction (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 shī yè correctly.
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