HSK 5 · Sport

业余 yèyú “spare-time” in Chinese

Traditional 業餘

What 业余 means

  1. spare-time
  2. amateur
  3. outside working hours
  4. in one’s spare time
  5. amateur (historian etc)

How to say 业余

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale业yè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale余yú2nd tone, rising

业余 in a sentence

  1. 观察鸟类是个很好的业余爱好。

    Guānchá niǎolèi shì ge hěn hǎo de yèyú àihào.

    Birdwatching is a great hobby.

    Sentence #333590 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我的业余爱好是拍野花的照片。

    Wǒ de yèyú àihào shì pāi yěhuā de zhàopiàn.

    My hobby is taking photos of wildflowers.

    Sentence #334391 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她把所有的业余时间都用在钓鱼上了。

    Tā bǎ suǒyǒu de yèyú shíjiān dōu yòng zài diàoyú shàng le.

    She spends all her spare time fishing.

    Sentence #4948523 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 业余 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 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.

The character 余 (yú) drawn as one shape
余yúI; me

余 is a single shape of 7 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 业余

业 5 strokes · 余 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 业余

Words with 业

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

Words with 余

多余duōyú · superfluous其余qíyú · the rest

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太极拳tàijíquán · tai chi (taijiquan)武术wǔshù · martial arts夏令营xiàlìngyíng · summer camp象棋xiàngqí · Chinese chess游览yóulǎn · to go sightseeing娱乐yúlè · to entertain裁判cáipàn · referee打猎dǎliè · to hunt

FAQs

业余 (yèyú) means “spare-time” or “amateur”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yèyú: yè with a 4th tone, then yú 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, 业余 is written 業餘. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yeyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 业余 from the suggestions. Typing yeyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
业余 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.