Illustration: Inside a neighborhood commercial laundry, several employees perform connected stages of the same service. One transfers towels from a large washing machine, another presses shirts, and a third sorts finished garments onto a densely packed collection rail.

JLPT N2suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

業ぎょう

gyou

business, industry

Follows an activity to name a line of work. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 接客せっきゃく業ぎょうは好すきじゃないんだ。

    I don’t like the customer service industry.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 父ちちは貿易ぼうえき業ぎょうに従事じゅうじしている。

    My father is engaged in foreign trade.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その町まちは鉄鋼てっこう業ぎょうの中心地ちゅうしんちである。

    That town is the center of the steel industry.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 業

  • 業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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