Chinese symbol for “employment”
就业
jiù yè
Traditional: 就業
to get a job; employment
The closest CC-CEDICT match for employment is 就业 (jiù yè), defined as: to get a job; employment.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “employment”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 业 (業) | yè | line of business; industry |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 就业.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 就是 | jiù shì | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just |
| 就要 | jiù yào | will; shall |
| 就算 | jiù suàn | (coll.) even if |
| 成就 | chéng jiù | accomplishment; success |
| 早就 | zǎo jiù | already at an earlier time |
| 企业 (企業) | qǐ yè | company; firm; enterprise; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 专业 (專業) | zhuān yè | specialty; specialized field |
| 工业 (工業) | gōng yè | industry |
See also: Japanese symbol for “employment”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.