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职业

zhí yè

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 職業

职业 (zhí yè) means "occupation/profession". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 职业 means

1. occupation; profession; vocation
2. professional

The characters in 职业

• 职zhíoffice; duty
• 业yèline of business; industry; occupation

Example sentences

• 你的职业是什么?
  Nǐ de zhíyè shì shénme?
  What do you do?
• 他的职业是医生。
  He is a doctor by profession.
• 您的职业是什么？
  What's your occupation?
• 他们是职业歌手。
  They're professional singers.
• 我的职业是教师。
  I work as a teacher.
• 汤姆是职业杀手。
  Tom is a professional killer.

Words starting with 职业

• 职业化zhí yè huàprofessionalization
• 职业病zhí yè bìngoccupational disease
• 职业中学zhí yè zhōng xuévocational high school
• 职业教育zhí yè jiào yùvocational training
• 职业高中zhí yè gāo zhōngvocational high school (abbr. to 职高
• 职业运动员zhí yè yùn dòng yuánprofessional (athlete); pro
• 职业素质zhí yè sù zhìprofessionalism
• 职业倦怠症zhí yè juàn dài zhèngprofessional boredom syndrome
• 职业高尔夫球协会Zhí yè Gāo ěr fū qiú Xié huìProfessional Golfer's Association (PGA)

Words containing 职业

• 自由职业者zì yóu zhí yè zhěself-employed professional; independent practitioner
• 自由职业zì yóu zhí yèliberal profession; profession practiced independently rather than as an employee
• 第二职业dì èr zhí yèsecond job
• 广东科学技术职业学院Guǎng dōng Kē xué jì shù Zhí yè Xué yuànGuangdong Institute of Science and Technology

Sounds the same

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

• 执业to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer); practitioner; professional
• 值夜on night duty

Where 职业 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Professions & roles (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhí yè correctly.
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