lose one's job; be out of work; be unemployed (n.)
HSK 5
Traditional
失業
Radicals
Stroke order
Phonetically similar words
视野 shì yě - field of vision; scan (n.) | HSK 6
事业 shì yè - undertaking; enterprise (n.) | HSK 6
Examples
他失业了，需要寻找新的工作。 tā shīyè le, xūyào xúnzhǎo xīn de gōngzuò. - He is unemployed and needs to find a new job.
失业率在经济危机期间上升了。 shīyèlǜ zài jīngjì wēijī qíjiān shàngshēng le. - The unemployment rate rose during the economic crisis.
失业对家庭带来了很大的经济压力。 shīyè duì jiātíng dàilái le hěn dà de jīngjì yālì. - Unemployment brought great financial pressure on the family.
他失业后一直在努力学习新技能。 tā shīyè hòu yīzhí zài nǔlì xuéxí xīn jìnéng. - He has been working hard to learn new skills since he became unemployed.
政府提供了失业救济金帮助失业者。 zhèngfǔ tígōng le shīyè jiùjì jīn bāngzhù shīyè zhě. - The government provided unemployment benefits to help the unemployed.
Characters
业 yè - occupation; business, enterprise; property; school work; already; (lit.) to be engaged in; (Buddhism) karma |
失 shī - lose; cannot find; lose control of; become unusual or abnormal; fail to achieve one's end; violate |