Illustration: Inside a neighborhood bicycle repair shop, the mechanic sets aside a small tray of handmade bead bracelets and returns to repairing a customer's bicycle. Rows of waiting bicycles, organized specialist tools, and a well-used repair stand dominate the working space.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

本ほん業ぎょう

hongyou

main occupation, core business

Example sentences

  1. 本業ほんぎょうの映像部門えいぞうぶもんでも、香港映画限定ほんこんえいがげんていながら洋画配給部門ようがはいきゅうぶもんを新設しんせつし邦画部門ほうがぶもんの不振ふしんを補おぎなった。

    In the main video-content business, to make up for the slowdown in Japanese films Toei created a distribution section for foreign films, though it was in fact limited to films from Hong Kong.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 本業の鉄砲のほか、「気炮」と呼ばれる蓄気ボンベ式の高性能空気銃や反射望遠鏡の開発で知られる。

    He was known as a teppo smith as well as a craftsman who developed high-performance air guns equipped with a bottle filled with accumulated air pressure called 'kiho' and reflecting telescopes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. この人ひと、本業ほんぎょうを放ほうりっぱなしでテレビばかり出でてるな。

    This guy keeps appearing on TV while neglecting his actual job.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 本業

  • 本book; presentOnホンKunもと
  • 業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store