HSK 6 · Work

事业 shìyè “career” in Chinese

Traditional 事業

What 事业 means

  1. career
  2. cause
  3. undertaking
  4. project
  5. activity
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause
  • publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation

Measure word 个 gè · 一个事业 yí ge shìyè

How to say 事业

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale事shì4th 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

事业 in a sentence

  1. 她想去北京发展她的事业。

    Tā xiǎng qù Běijīng fāzhǎn tā de shìyè.

    She wants to go to Beijing to build her career.

    Sentence #2448819 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他必须继承父亲的事业。

    Tā bìxū jìchéng fùqīn de shìyè.

    He has to carry on his father’s business.

    Sentence #1891622 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 有的工作只是工作，有的工作是你毕生的事业。

    Yǒude gōngzuò zhǐshì gōngzuò, yǒude gōngzuò shì nǐ bìshēng de shìyè.

    Some jobs are just jobs; others are your life’s work.

    Sentence #1647219 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 事业 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 事 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
事shìmatter
  • 一one · yī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 彐snout · jì
  • 亅hook · jué
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 事业

事 8 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.

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

Words related to 事业

Words with 事

事shì · matter没事méishì · it’s nothing事情shìqing · matter同事tóngshì · colleague故事gùshi · story从事cóngshì · to engage in人事rénshì · personnel军事jūnshì · military affairs事实shìshí · fact事物shìwù · thing

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

任命rènmìng · to appoint上级shàngjí · superior上任shàngrèn · to take office事务shìwù · affairs手艺shǒuyì · craftsmanship书记shūji · secretary (of a party committee)提拔tíbá · to promote (to a higher post)徒弟túdì · apprentice

FAQs

事业 (shìyè) means “career” or “cause”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shìyè: shì 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, 事业 is written 事業. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one career is 一个事业 (yí ge shìyè).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shiye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 事业 from the suggestions. Typing shiye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
事业 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.