HSK 5 · Work

兼职 jiānzhí “part-time job” in Chinese

Traditional 兼職

What 兼职 means

  1. part-time job
  2. to work part-time
  3. to hold concurrent posts
  4. concurrent job
  5. moonlighting

How to say 兼职

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale兼jiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale职zhí2nd tone, rising

兼职 in a sentence

  1. 她以前是兼职厨师，后来做了全职。

    Tā yǐqián shì jiānzhí chúshī, hòulái zuò le quánzhí.

    She used to be a part-time chef, but later she went full-time.

    Sentence #8645598 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 找兼职有多简单？

    Zhǎo jiānzhí yǒu duō jiǎndān?

    How easy is it to find a part-time job?

    Sentence #13598186 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 我必须找一份兼职工作。

    Wǒ bìxū zhǎo yí fèn jiānzhí gōngzuò.

    I have to find a part-time job.

    Sentence #883492 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 兼职 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 兼 (jiān) drawn as one shape
兼jiāndouble

兼 is a single shape of 10 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 职 (zhí) with each of its parts in a different colour
职zhíoffice
  • 耳ear · ěrMeaning part
  • 只only · zhǐSound part

耳 hints at the meaning (ear); 只 (zhǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhí.

How to write 兼职

兼 10 strokes · 职 11 strokes

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

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

Words related to 兼职

Words with 兼

统筹兼顾tǒngchóujiāngù · to plan as a whole and consider all aspects

Words with 职

职业zhíyè · occupation辞职cízhí · to resign就职jiùzhí · to take office职能zhínéng · function职位zhíwèi · position职务zhíwù · post

More words: Work & Career

工人gōngrén · worker工业gōngyè · industry合同hétong · (business) contract合作hézuò · to cooperate会计kuàijì · accountant简历jiǎnlì · curriculum vitae (CV)结账jiézhàng · to pay the bill经营jīngyíng · to run (a business)

FAQs

兼职 (jiānzhí) means “part-time job” or “to work part-time”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiānzhí: jiān with a 1st tone, then zhí with a 2nd 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, 兼职 is written 兼職. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianzhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 兼职 from the suggestions. Typing jianzhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
兼职 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.