HSK 5 · Work

农业 nóngyè “agriculture” in Chinese

Traditional 農業

What 农业 means

  1. agriculture
  2. farming

How to say 农业

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale农nóng2nd 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

农业 in a sentence

  1. 政府应该加大对农业的投资。

    Zhèngfǔ yīnggāi jiādà duì nóngyè de tóuzī.

    The government should invest more in agriculture.

    Sentence #2515316 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我主修农业。

    Wǒ zhǔxiū nóngyè.

    My major is agriculture.

    Sentence #14023293 from Tatoeba

  3. 农业需要消耗大量的水。

    Nóngyè xūyào xiāohào dàliàng de shuǐ.

    Agriculture uses a huge amount of water.

    Sentence #5640777 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 农业 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 农 (nóng) drawn as one shape
农nóngagriculture

农 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

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 农业

农 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.

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

Words related to 农业

Words with 农

农村nóngcūn · rural area农民nóngmín · farmer农历nónglì · lunar calendar

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企业qǐyè · company商业shāngyè · business失业shīyè · unemployment行业hángyè · trade

More words: Work & Career

秘书mìshū · secretary名片míngpiàn · (business) card模特mótè · (fashion) model农民nóngmín · farmer培训péixùn · to train企业qǐyè · company人事rénshì · personnel人员rényuán · staff

FAQs

农业 (nóngyè) means “agriculture” or “farming”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it nóngyè: nóng 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, 农业 is written 農業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type nongye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 农业 from the suggestions. Typing nongye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
农业 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.