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HSK
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
achievement; accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
HSK 7-9
in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
HSK 4
to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom)
mastery of study lies in diligence (idiom). You can only master a subject by assiduous study. / Excellence in work is only possible with diligence. / Practice makes perfect.
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *業* | 業* | *業
line of business / industry / occupation / job / employment / school studies / enterprise / property / (Buddhism) karma / deed / to engage in / already
HSK 7-9
hobbyist; amateur
industry
(within) the industry; the profession
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *業* | 業* | *業
surname Ye
sea of evil / endless crime
dealer / trader / person or company engaged in some industry or trade
industry standard
(retail industry) format
already
owner / proprietor
karmic hindrance (Buddhism) / karmic consequences that stand in the way of enlightenment / (term of abuse, especially toward the younger generation) devil spawn / (fig.) money
spare-time education / evening classes
teacher / one's teacher
college for people who attend after work
amateur
already
(Buddhism) karma
to have paid one's karmic debts (Buddhism)
evil dragon
part-time college (abbr. for 業餘大學|业余大学)
salesperson
the root cause (of evil) / bane (Buddhism)
(Tw) (media) writing an article or creating a video favorable to a business in return for payment from the business (abbr. for 業務配合|业务配合)
(Tw) advertorial


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