業

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

业

🇨🇳

profession

HSK 10 N3

Human →Actions

yè

ギョウ、ゴウ

わざ

업

Depicts a person (大) carrying a weapon (丵). Based on the original meaning "attack". The meaning later shifted to "expand territory" and "develop business".

Components

丵 thick+ 大 big =

業 profession

丵 Iconic component

zhuó thick

thick (grass)

Depicts a chisel-shaped weapon.

大 Iconic component

dà big

big, great, vast, large, high

Depicts a person.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Bronze

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

業

Regular

Modern

Chinese

业 / 業 [Yè]

surname Ye

业 / 業 [yè]

line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already

Japanese

業ごう同音

noun

Buddhism karma
result of one's karma; fate; destiny
uncontrollable temper

業わざ同音

noun deed; act; work; performance

業ぎょう同音

noun

work; business; company; agency
study

Korean

업 [業]

Noun

occupation; job; Work that one does regularly for pay.; duty; Important work or mission that one should do or perform with responsibility.; karma; In Buddhism, one's current actions that are believed to affect one's fortune in the future.

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (2)

過ちは人の常、許すは神の業。

To err is human, to forgive divine.

大学を卒業したら、輸出業に従事したいと思っています。

I hope to be engaged in the export business after graduating from college.

Japanese Names

業ぎょう

Gyou surname

業はじめ

Hajime unclassified name

業ごう