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業 わざ business, vocation, arts, performance 4 43 13 75 き・きへん 象形 Pictographic The oldest profession: prostitution. I was once in a brothel in Amsterdam where the working girls had a group of businessmen blindfolded and hanging upside down in a row, not yet spanked and whipped, but waiting eagerly.

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ギョウ、ゴウ なり, のぶ 企業(きぎょう): enterprise; undertaking; corporation; business業者(ぎょうしゃ): (1) trader; merchant (2) manufacturer; contractor作業(さぎょう): work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty産業(さんぎょう): industry事業(じぎょう): (1) project; enterprise; business; industry; operations (2) act; deed; conduct農業(のうぎょう): agriculture営業(えいぎょう): business; trade; sales; operations工業(こうぎょう): (manufacturing) industry業績(ぎょうせき): achievement; performance; results; work; contribution失業(しつぎょう): unemployment授業(じゅぎょう): lesson; class work; teaching; instruction従業員(じゅうぎょういん): employee; worker職業(しょくぎょう): occupation; business卒業(そつぎょう): (1) graduation; completion (e.g. of a course) (2) outgrowing something; moving on商業(しょうぎょう): commerce; trade; business漁業(ぎょぎょう): fishing (industry)休業(きゅうぎょう): closed (e.g. store); business suspended; shutdown; holiday林業(りんぎょう): forestry修業(しゅうぎょう): pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course鉱業(こうぎょう): mining industry分業(ぶんぎょう): division of labor; division of labour; specialization; specialisation; assembly-line production業務(ぎょうむ): business; affairs; duties; work; procedure; task; action; function就業(しゅうぎょう): employment; starting work実業家(じつぎょうか): industrialist; businessman興業(こうぎょう): industrial enterprise兼業(けんぎょう): side line; second business業(ぎょう): (1) work; business (2) study 3 八: eight; eight radical (no. 12)羊: sheep木: tree; wood 木 4 (none) profession A bunch of kids are hanging upside down in a row on the monkeybars. Naturally, they haven't chosen a profession, at least not yet.

Kanji	業
Onyomi	ギョウ、ゴウ
Kunyomi	わざ
Nanori	なり, のぶ
English	business, vocation, arts, performance
Examples	企業(きぎょう): enterprise; undertaking; corporation; business 業者(ぎょうしゃ): (1) trader; merchant (2) manufacturer; contractor 作業(さぎょう): work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty 産業(さんぎょう): industry 事業(じぎょう): (1) project; enterprise; business; industry; operations (2) act; deed; conduct 農業(のうぎょう): agriculture 営業(えいぎょう): business; trade; sales; operations 工業(こうぎょう): (manufacturing) industry 業績(ぎょうせき): achievement; performance; results; work; contribution 失業(しつぎょう): unemployment 授業(じゅぎょう): lesson; class work; teaching; instruction 従業員(じゅうぎょういん): employee; worker 職業(しょくぎょう): occupation; business 卒業(そつぎょう): (1) graduation; completion (e.g. of a course) (2) outgrowing something; moving on 商業(しょうぎょう): commerce; trade; business 漁業(ぎょぎょう): fishing (industry) 休業(きゅうぎょう): closed (e.g. store); business suspended; shutdown; holiday 林業(りんぎょう): forestry 修業(しゅうぎょう): pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course 鉱業(こうぎょう): mining industry 分業(ぶんぎょう): division of labor; division of labour; specialization; specialisation; assembly-line production 業務(ぎょうむ): business; affairs; duties; work; procedure; task; action; function 就業(しゅうぎょう): employment; starting work 実業家(じつぎょうか): industrialist; businessman 興業(こうぎょう): industrial enterprise 兼業(けんぎょう): side line; second business 業(ぎょう): (1) work; business (2) study
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	3
Frequency	43
Components	八: eight; eight radical (no. 12) 羊: sheep 木: tree; wood
Number of Strokes	13
Kanji Radical	木
Radical Number	75
Radical Strokes	4
Radical Reading	き・きへん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	象形 Pictographic
Keyword	profession
Koohii Story 1	The oldest profession: prostitution. I was once in a brothel in Amsterdam where the working girls had a group of businessmen blindfolded and hanging upside down in a row, not yet spanked and whipped, but waiting eagerly.
Koohii Story 2	A bunch of kids are hanging upside down in a row on the monkeybars. Naturally, they haven't chosen a profession, at least not yet.

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