A kanji
業
business, vocation, arts, performance
- 13 strokes
- Taught in grade 3 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 43 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
ギョウ、ゴウ
Kun'yomi
わざ
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 業 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 業 26 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N5 · 1 word
JLPT N4 · 3 words
JLPT N3 · 6 words
JLPT N2 · 4 words
JLPT N1 · 12 words
- 従業員じゅうぎょういんemployee, worker
- 実業家じつぎょうかindustrialist, businessman
- 鉱業こうぎょうmining industry
- 興業こうぎょうstarting a business; industry
- 事業じぎょうproject, enterprise, business
- 兼業けんぎょうholding two jobs at the same time
- 業者ぎょうしゃtrader, merchant
- 業績ぎょうせきachievement, work, contribution
- 業務ぎょうむbusiness, duties, work
- 就業しゅうぎょうemployment, starting work
- 分業ぶんぎょうdivision of labor, specialization, assembly-line production
- 林業りんぎょうforestry
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 業.
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