旧业 (舊業)
jiù yè
Pinyin
Definition
旧业 (舊業)
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- one's old profession
- trade of one's forebears
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 undertaking
- 2 project
- 3 activity
- 4 (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause
- 5 publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation
- 6 career
- 7 occupation
- 8 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 as before
- 2 still
- 1 to begin an undertaking
- 2 to start a major task
- 3 to initiate
- 4 to venture
- 5 venture
- 6 entrepreneurship
Idioms (20)
不念旧恶
- 1 do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
传道受业
- 1 to teach (idiom); lit. to give moral and practical instruction
喜新厌旧
- 1 lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
因循守旧
- 1 (idiom) to continue in the same old rut
- 2 diehard conservative attitudes
安家立业
- 1 stable household, established profession (idiom); settled and comfortably off