漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
業: business, vocation
Also: arts, performance
JLPT N413 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 业(form)
- 羊sheep(form)
- 木tree(meaning)
木 carries the meaning · 业 and 羊 are drawn in
13 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ギョウgyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 授業じゅぎょうlesson, class
- 授業料じゅぎょうりょうschool fees, tuition
- 授業中じゅぎょうちゅうwhile in class, during a class
- 職業しょくぎょうoccupation
- 企業きぎょうenterprise
- 従業員じゅうぎょういんemployee
- 卒業するそつぎょうするgraduate
- 作業するさぎょうするwork
- 営業するえいぎょうするbe in business
わざwaza · kun'yomi · on its own
- 仕業しわざhandiwork
- 人間業にんげんわざthe work of man
Also read ゴウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)丵 chisel + 大 person; big
Various explanations exist:.
Source: Wiktionary, 業 (rev. 93668321), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ギョウ
6 kanji share this on'yomiAlso read ゴウ
12 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side業 business · 业 + 木
vs達 accomplished · 土 + ⻌In ChineseSimplified 业 · traditional, as in Japanese · yè
Japan keeps the traditional form 業; mainland China simplifies it to 业.
- Simplified
- 业 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 業 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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