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Mythic Mandarin

业 (yè): meaning and stroke order

业 (yè) means line of business, industry, occupation, job, employment, school studies, enterprise.

业

Simplified
业
Traditional
業
Pinyin
yè

Stroke order of 业

业

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 业

  1. yè Traditional 業
    • line of business
    • industry
    • occupation
    • job
    • employment
    • school studies
    • enterprise
    • property
    • (Buddhism) karma
    • deed
    • to engage in
    • already
  2. Yè Traditional 業
    • surname Ye

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 业

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).