Reading
profession, business, trade
일 업il eop
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 일 (il) is the Korean for profession, and 업 (eop) is the reading. Say 일 업 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⽊ 75
- Beyond radical
- 9
- Mandarin
- yè
- Japanese on
- gyou
- Japanese kun
- waza
Vocabulary
Words that use 業
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
industry or manufacturing industry
Character by character labor + profession
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.