HSK 5 · Work

营业 yíngyè “to do business” in Chinese

Traditional 營業

What 营业 means

  1. to do business
  2. to trade

How to say 营业

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale营yíng2nd 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

营业 in a sentence

  1. 打扰一下，超市现在营业吗？

    Dǎrǎo yíxià, chāoshì xiànzài yíngyè ma?

    Excuse me, is the supermarket open now?

    Sentence #1397106 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 银行星期六不营业。

    Yínháng xīngqīliù bù yíngyè.

    The bank isn’t open on Saturdays.

    Sentence #9963201 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你们什么时候开始营业？

    Nǐmen shénme shíhou kāishǐ yíngyè?

    What time do you open?

    Sentence #8730057 from Tatoeba

How 营业 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 营 (yíng) with each of its parts in a different colour
营yíngcamp
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 吕a musical note · lǚ
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 营业

营 11 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.

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

Words related to 营业

Words with 营

营养yíngyǎng · nutrition经营jīngyíng · to run (a business)夏令营xiàlìngyíng · summer camp

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

项目xiàngmù · item销售xiāoshòu · to sell行业hángyè · trade业务yèwù · business员工yuángōng · employee中介zhōngjiè · agency专家zhuānjiā · expert主任zhǔrèn · director

FAQs

营业 (yíngyè) means “to do business” or “to trade”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yíngyè: yíng 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, 营业 is written 營業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yingye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 营业 from the suggestions. Typing yingye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
营业 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.