HSK 6 · Work

就业 jiùyè “employment” in Chinese

Traditional 就業

What 就业 means

  1. employment
  2. to find a job
  3. to get a job

How to say 就业

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale就jiù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale业yè4th tone, falling

就业 in a sentence

  1. 计算机产业能够提供相当多的就业岗位。

    Jìsuànjī chǎnyè nénggòu tígōng xiāngdāng duō de jiùyè gǎngwèi.

    The computer industry can provide a great many jobs.

    Sentence #1898544 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他们对他们的员工保证就业。

    Tāmen duì tāmen de yuángōng bǎozhèng jiùyè.

    They guaranteed employment for their staff.

    Sentence #801938 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 就业 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 就 (jiù) with each of its parts in a different colour
就jiùin that case; then
  • 京capital city · jīngSound part
  • 尤especially · yóuMeaning part

尤 hints at the meaning (especially); 京 (jīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiù.

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 就业

就 12 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.

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

Words related to 就业

Words with 就

就jiù · then就要jiùyào · about to就是jiùshì · exactly成就chéngjiù · accomplishment就近jiùjìn · nearby将就jiāngjiu · to make do迁就qiānjiù · to accommodate就职jiùzhí · to take office

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

解雇jiěgù · to dismiss敬业jìngyè · dedication to one’s work精益求精jīngyìqiújīng · to strive for perfection晋升jìnshēng · to be promoted就职jiùzhí · to take office纪要jìyào · summary决策juécè · to make a policy decision开除kāichú · to expel

FAQs

就业 (jiùyè) means “employment” or “to find a job”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiùyè: jiù with a 4th 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, 就业 is written 就業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiuye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 就业 from the suggestions. Typing jiuye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
就业 is an HSK 6 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.