業
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Translingual [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 丵 + 巾
Han character [edit]
業 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿木 (TCTD), four-corner 32904, composition ⿳业䒑未)
- profession, business, trade
- already (literary)
- karma
Derived terms [edit]
References [edit]
- KangXi: page 541, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15170
- Dae Jaweon: page 928, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1247, character 7
- Unihan data for U+696D
Cantonese [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
業 (simplified 业, Yale yip6)
Japanese [edit]
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
Compounds [edit]
Compounds containing 業
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Sinitic 業.
Noun [edit]
業 (hiragana ぎょう, romaji gyō, historical hiragana げふ)
- work, task, business: the job at hand
- profession, business, trade: what one does to earn a living
- studies, scholarship (the act of being a scholar), the arts
- 医科の業に着手する
- いかのぎょうにちゃくしゅする
ika no gyō ni chakushu suru - set to studying medicine, start one's medical studies
- いかのぎょうにちゃくしゅする
- 医科の業に着手する
Proverbs [edit]
- 業は勤むるに精しく嬉しむに荒む (ぎょうはつっとむるにくわしくたのしむにすさむ, gyō wa tsutomuru ni kuwashiku tanoshimu ni susamu): study hard and become wise, slack off and stay dumb
- 業は道に依って賢し (ぎょうはみちによってかしこし, gyō wa michi ni yotte kashikoshi): the ones doing it are the experts
- 業を創め、統を垂る (ぎょうをはじめ、とうをたる, gyō o hajime, tō o taru): a man of virtue builds up his skills, and then passes them on to those who come after
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Sinitic 業. Translation from the Sanskrit term कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”).
Noun [edit]
業 (hiragana ごう, romaji gō, historical hiragana がふ, ごふ)
Idioms [edit]
- 業が深い (ごうがふかい, gō ga fukai): to be deeply sinful
- 業が煮える (ごうがにえる, gō ga nieru), 業が煎れる (ごうがいれる, gō ga ireru), 業が湧く (ごうがわく, gō ga waku): to be irritated, to be annoyed, to get angry
- 業を煮やす (ごうをにやす, gō o niyasu), 業を沸かす (ごうをわかす, gō o wakasu): to lose one's temper, to fly off the handle
- 業に沈む (ごうにしずむ, gō ni shizumu): to sink into sin and despair
- 業の風 (ごうのかぜ, gō no kaze): the powerful winds of sin that blow in hell
- 業の秤 (ごうのはかり, gō no hakari): a mythological scale that weighs the sins of the dead
- 業を曝す (ごうをさらす, gō o sarasu): to endure shame in this life as karma for sins committed in a previous life
Proverbs [edit]
- 業によりて果を引く (ごうによりてかをひく, gō ni yorite ka o hiku): you reap what you sow, what goes around comes around
Etymology 3 [edit]
Stem noun form of verb 業る (naru, “to earn a living”). Ultimately of same origin as verb なる.
Noun [edit]
- a living, a job, what one does to earn a living
Etymology 4 [edit]
From Old Japanese waza.
Noun [edit]
- a work of great significance or intent
- an intentional act or action
- (Buddhism) a Buddhist memorial service
- one's job, occupation, profession
- a matter or affair: implies a complication or problem
- 容易な業ではありませんよ。
- よういなわざではありませんよ。
Yōi na waza de wa arimasen yo. - It's no easy matter, I tell you.
- よういなわざではありませんよ。
- 容易な業ではありませんよ。
- a technique, a means of doing something
- 業を磨く
- わざをみがく
waza o migaku - polish one's technique
- わざをみがく
- 業を磨く
- a move or technique in sumo, judo, kendo, or other competitive activity
- a disaster, misfortune, calamity
Synonyms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
- (intentional act): 態と (わざと, waza to): intentionally, deliberately
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
業 (hangeul 업, revised eop, McCune-Reischauer ŏp, Yale ep)
Mandarin [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
業 (simplified 业, pinyin yè (ye4), zhū (zhu1), Wade-Giles yeh4, chu1)
Compounds [edit]
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
業 (nghiệp)