HSK 5 · Work

行业 hángyè “trade” in Chinese

Traditional 行業

What 行业 means

  1. trade
  2. profession
  3. industry
  4. business

How to say 行业

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale行háng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale业yè4th tone, falling

行业 in a sentence

  1. 这是很有前景的行业。

    Zhè shì hěn yǒu qiánjǐng de hángyè.

    This is a very promising industry.

    Sentence #805177 from Tatoeba

  2. 您在英国从事中医行业多长时间了？

    Nín zài Yīngguó cóngshì zhōngyī hángyè duō cháng shíjiān le?

    How long have you been practising Chinese medicine in the UK?

    Sentence #827180 from Tatoeba

  3. 这家公司在石油行业排名第二。

    Zhè jiā gōngsī zài shíyóu hángyè páimíng dì'èr.

    This company ranks second in the oil industry.

    Sentence #1721862 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 行业 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 行 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
行hángrow; line
  • 彳step · chì
  • 亍to take small steps · chù

Memory aidDrawn from a crossroads: to walk, to go. It also means a row or line (háng).

The character 业 (yè) drawn as one shape
业yèline of business

业 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 行业

行 6 strokes · 业 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

行业 (hángyè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 行业 (hángyè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 行业

Words with 行

银行yínháng · bank不行bùxíng · won’t do行李xíngli · luggage行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk自行车zìxíngchē · bike银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card行xíng · OK进行jìnxíng · to advance流行liúxíng · popular举行jǔxíng · to hold (a meeting

Words with 业

作业zuòyè · school assignment毕业bìyè · graduation专业zhuānyè · major (at university)职业zhíyè · occupation业余yèyú · spare-time工业gōngyè · industry农业nóngyè · agriculture企业qǐyè · company商业shāngyè · business失业shīyè · unemployment

More words: Work & Career

退休tuìxiū · to retire (from the workforce)文件wénjiàn · document项目xiàngmù · item销售xiāoshòu · to sell业务yèwù · business营业yíngyè · to do business员工yuángōng · employee中介zhōngjiè · agency

FAQs

行业 (hángyè) means “trade” or “profession”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hángyè: háng with a 2nd tone, then yè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 行业 is written 行業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hangye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 行业 from the suggestions. Typing hangye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
行业 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.