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Mythic Mandarin

失业 (shī yè): meaning and stroke order

失业 (shī yè) means unemployment, to lose one's job.

失业

Simplified
失业
Traditional
失業
Pinyin
shī yè

Stroke order of 失业

失

  • shī to lose; to miss
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

业

  • Yè surname Ye
  • yè line of business; industry
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 業

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 失业

  1. shī yè Traditional 失業
    • unemployment
    • to lose one's job

Radicals of the characters

失
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
业
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).