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作業

简作业 · 繁作業

Mandarin · pinyin zuò yè

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作: zuò · make; work; compose, write; act, perform
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业: yè · profession, business; GB radical 111

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4–4 · zuo4 ye4

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zok3 jip6

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noun

work; operation; task
schoolwork; assignment; homework
(chiefly Hong Kong) assignment book; exercise book (book for students, containing problems and exercises) (Classifier: 本 c)
(literary) job; work; profession

verb

to operate (a piece of machinery, etc.)
to work in a profession
to contribute to bad karma; to sin; to do evil

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