Illustration: Inside a municipal employment fair, three pairs of workers demonstrate their occupations around neighboring tables. Two cooks in aprons fold dumplings beside a mixing bowl; two electricians in work clothes assemble a disconnected practice socket; two hairdressers shape wigs on training heads.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

職しょく種しゅ

shokushu

type of occupation, job category

Example sentences

  1. 職種しょくしゅはなんですか。

    What line of work are you in?

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 付近ふきんの村落そんらくを城下じょうかに移住いじゅうさせたり、商人しょうにんや職人しょくにんを職種しょくしゅごとに分わけて移住いじゅうさせた。

    People from surrounding villages were moved into the joka and merchants and craftsmen were separated into their occupation.

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

  3. 男女だんじょともに髪かみを伸のばす習慣しゅうかんのあった中国ちゅうごくでは、男性だんせいが地位ちい・職種しょくしゅを表あらわす冠かんむりを髪かみに留とめる為ための重要じゅうような実用品じつようひんでもあった。

    In China where both men and women commonly wore their hair long, kanzashi were important practical items for men to attach a court cap, which represented their status or type of job, to their hair.

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

Kanji in 職種

  • 職post; employmentOnショク・ソク
  • 種species; kindOnシュKunたね

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