業

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業 U+696D, 業
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-696D
← 楬
[U+696C]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 楮 →
[U+696E]
See also: 菐 and 业

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

業 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿木 (TCTD), four-corner 32904, composition ⿱业𦍎)

Derived glyphs[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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 業
simp. 业

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 業
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
業-bronze.svg 業-bigseal.svg 業-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (業) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
礏 *ŋoːb
業 *ŋab
鄴 *ŋab
驜 *ŋab
嶪 *ŋab
鸈 *ŋab
澲 *ŋab

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 丵 + 巾.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 業
Mandarin Beijing /iɛ⁵¹/
Harbin /iɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /ie⁵³/
Jinan /iə²¹/
Qingdao /iə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /niɛ²¹/
Xining /ȵi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ie¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵiə¹³/
Ürümqi /iɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /ie²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵie³¹/
Guiyang /nie²¹/
Kunming /niɛ³¹/
Nanjing /ieʔ⁵/
Hefei /iɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /ȵiʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /iaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ȵiəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ȵiəʔ²/
Wenzhou /ȵi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ne²²/
Tunxi /ȵia¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ȵie²⁴/
Xiangtan /ȵie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ŋiap̚⁵/
Taoyuan /ŋiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jip̚²/
Nanning /nip̚²²/
Hong Kong /jip̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /giap̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋieʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋiɛ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋiap̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋiap̚⁵/
/ŋiap̚³/
Rime
Character 業
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 業 (147)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 魚怯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɨɐp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋiɐp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɨap̚/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiap̚/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi̯ɐp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 業 業 業
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yè yè yè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjæp › ‹ ngjæp › ‹ ngjæp ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m-qʰ](r)[a]p/ /*[m-qʰ](r)[a]p/ /*[ŋ](r)[a]p/
English work (n.) horizontal board of a bell stand or frame strong, sturdy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 業
Reading # 1/1
No. 14819
Phonetic
component		 業
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 業
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋab/

Definitions[edit]

業

  1. profession; business; trade
  2. course of study
  3. cause; estate
  4. (literary) already
  5. (Buddhism) karma

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 業

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

業

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. work, business, task, profession
  2. vocation
  3. arts
  4. performance

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds containing 業

Etymology 1[edit]

From Sinitic 業.

Noun[edit]

業 (hiragana ぎょう, rōmaji gyō, historical hiragana げふ)

  1. work, task, business: the job at hand
  2. profession, business, trade: what one does to earn a living
  3. studies, scholarship (the act of being a scholar), the arts
    医 (い)科 (か)の業 (ぎょう)に着 (ちゃく)手 (しゅ)する
    ika no gyō ni chakushu suru
    set to studying medicine, start one's medical studies
Proverbs[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Sinitic 業. Translation from the Sanskrit term कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”).

Noun[edit]

業 (hiragana ごう, rōmaji gō, historical hiragana ごふ)

  1. (Buddhism) karma
  2. sin, misdeed
  3. abbreviation of 業腹 (gōhara): resentment, resentful
Idioms[edit]
Proverbs[edit]

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]

業 (hiragana なり, rōmaji nari)

  1. a living, a job, what one does to earn a living

Etymology 4[edit]

From Old Japanese waza.

Noun[edit]

業 (hiragana わざ, rōmaji waza)

  1. a work of great significance or intent
  2. an intentional act or action
  3. (Buddhism) a Buddhist memorial service
  4. one's job, occupation, profession
  5. a matter or affair: implies a complication or problemよ
    容 (よう)易 (い)な業 (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.
  6. a technique, a means of doing something
    業 (わざ)を磨 (みが)く
    waza o migaku
    polish one's technique
  7. a move or technique in sumo, judo, kendo, or other competitive activity
  8. a disaster, misfortune, calamity
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

業 • (eop) (hangeul 업, revised eop, McCune-Reischauer ŏp, Yale ep)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

業 (nghiệp)

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