业余 業餘
业余業餘 in English
- in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
业
These are the forms of 業, the traditional character: 业 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
余
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 23 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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我的业余爱好是拍野花的照片。
My hobby is taking pictures of wild flowers.
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观察鸟类是个很好的业余爱好。
Bird watching is a nice hobby.