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school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
business / trade / commerce
HSK 3
to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise / entrepreneurship
HSK 3
to get a job / employment
HSK 3
industry
HSK 3
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
occupation; profession; vocation / professional
HSK 3
agriculture / farming
HSK 3
specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門|门, 個|个 / professional
HSK 3
to open a business / to open a practice / open (for business)
HSK 3
to do business / to trade
HSK 4
graduation / to graduate / to finish school
HSK 4
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
company; firm; enterprise; corporation / CL:
HSK 4
trade; profession; industry; business
HSK 4
industry / estate / property / industrial
HSK 5
property / real estate / abbr. for 物業管理|物业管理, property management
HSK 5
studies / schoolwork
HSK 7-9
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  *業* | 業* | *業
line of business / industry / occupation / job / employment / school studies / enterprise / property / (Buddhism) karma / deed / to engage in / already
HSK 7-9
to practice (a trade)
HSK 7-9
to cease trading (temporarily or permanently) / to close down
HSK 7-9
dedicated to one's work
HSK 7-9
(idiom) conscientious / assiduous
HSK 7-9
to attend (a school) / to drop out (of college etc)
Yang Ye (died 986), Chinese military general of the Northern Han and the Northern Song dynasties, defended the Song against invasion by the Liao 遼|辽
public utility / state-run enterprise / public foundation or enterprise, often charitable
not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
industry / commercial enterprise
heavy industry / manufacturing
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
plantation
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  *業* | 業* | *業
surname Ye
creative industries (design, music, publishing etc) (abbr. for 文化創意產業|文化创意产业)
beekeeping / apiculture
to finish school, esp. a short course / to complete a course / (of a company) to cease operations
service industry
manufacturing industry
to close down (temporarily or permanently) / to go out of business
same trade or business / person in the same trade or business
every trade; all professions; all walks of life
on-site operations (e.g. surveying)
small and medium enterprise
national industry / industry run by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese
food service industry; catering industry
transportation industry
chemical industry (abbr. to 化工)
stable household, established profession (idiom); settled and comfortably off
mining industry
film industry
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
communications industry
great cause / great undertaking
tourism industry
animal husbandry / stock raising / livestock raising
self-employed / profession
financial sector / the banking business
steel industry
unemployed / jobless / out of work
the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony
newspaper industry
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
an old name for Nanjing, called Jiankang 建康 or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420)
to achieve or accomplish goals
livestock husbandry / animal product industry
homework
state-operated enterprise
defense industry
(Tw) dairy industry; dairy farming
family property
full employment
industry and agriculture
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
privately-operated enterprise
to preserve one's heritage / to defend the accomplishments of previous generations / to carry on the good work / to keep one's business going
secondary industry
fishing industry / fishery
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
lesson / schoolwork
industry and commerce
to change one's profession / to transfer to civilian work
multitasking
achievement / outstanding work / glorious deed
one's regular job
welfare services
to complete a course of study (old) / to graduate
sin (in Buddhism) / enmity leading to sin / also written 冤孽
second job
to wait for employment; to be unemployed
collective karma (Buddhism) / consequences that all must suffer
to teach / to bequeath
to change profession or business
sideline; side occupation
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture
foreign, private and joint ventures
handicraft
to study / to learn from a master / (pupil's first person pronoun) I, your student
public enterprise, as opposed to private enterprise 私營企業|私营企业
private business / opposite: state-owned enterprise 國有企業|国有企业

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