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
职
These are the forms of 職, the traditional character: 职 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
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
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他的职业是医生。
He is a doctor by profession.
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我喜欢画油画，但是我不想拿它做我的终身职业。
I like to do oil painting, but I don't intend to make that my lifelong occupation.
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教书是我自己选择的职业。
Teaching is a profession of my own choosing.
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教英语是他的职业。
Teaching English is his profession.