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業

简业 · 繁業

Mandarin · pinyin yè#

Mandarin · pinyin Yè#

surname Ye

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業: Look up this written character
业: yè · profession, business; GB radical 111

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4 · ye4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

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

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profession; business; trade
merits and achievements; work
course of study
property; estate
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) lofty; large
(Buddhism) karma
(literary) already
(literary) to engage in (a job or work)
(historical) ornamental wooden board, carved into a sawtooth shape, on top of the horizontal beam of the frame on which bells, drums, and other instruments hang
(Hokkien) busy and laborious (causing sadness and distress)

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