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業餘

简业余 · 繁業餘

Mandarin · pinyin yè yú

in one's spare time
outside working hours
amateur (historian etc)

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業: Look up this written character
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业: yè · profession, business; GB radical 111
余: yú · I, my, me; surname; surplus

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4–2 · ye4 yu2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jip6 jyu4

Cantonese word readings for 業餘. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

free time; leisure; spare time

adj

(attributive) spare (time)
(attributive) amateur

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