行当 (行當)
háng dang
Pinyin

Definition

行当 (行當)
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háng dang
  1. profession
  2. role (acting)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

排行
pái háng
  1. 1 to rank
  2. 2 ranking
  3. 3 seniority (among siblings)
旅行
lǚ xíng
  1. 1 to travel
  2. 2 journey
  3. 3 trip
  4. 4 classifier: 趟 tàng
  5. 5 classifier: 次 cì
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
流行
liú xíng
  1. 1 (of a contagious disease etc) to spread
  2. 2 to propagate
  3. 3 (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular
  4. 4 fashionable
行
háng
  1. 1 row
  2. 2 line
  3. 3 commercial firm
  4. 4 line of business
  5. 5 profession
  6. 6 to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age)
  7. 7 (in data tables) row
  8. 8 (Tw) column
行动
xíng dòng
  1. 1 operation
  2. 2 action
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 to move about
  5. 5 mobile

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
一目十行
yī mù shí háng
  1. 1 ten lines at a glance (idiom)
  2. 2 to read very rapidly
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)

Sample Sentences

这行当适合您啊，敢创新、有魄力头脑又转得快！做生意正好！
zhè hángdang shìhé nín ā ，gǎn chuàngxīn 、yǒu pòlì tóunǎo yòu zhuàn de kuài ！zuò shēngyi zhènghǎo ！
That kind of career suits you very well. Given your courage in innovation, along with your drive, brains and adaptability, you're perfectly suited to doing business!
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行，我服了！你还真别说，航天科技转化为民用之后，创造的价值可是巨大的！就说太空漫游吧，那些有钱人都争着去，连麦当娜都报名了，这可是个挣钱的行当啊！
xíng ，wǒ fú le ！nǐ hái zhēn bié shuō ，hángtiān kējì zhuǎnhuà wéi mínyòng zhīhòu ，chuàng zào de jiàzhí kěshì jùdà de ！jiù shuō tàikōng mànyóu ba ，nàxiē yǒuqiánrén dōu zhēng zhe qù ，lián Màidāngnà dōu bàomíng le ，zhè kě shì ge zhèngqián de hángdang a ！
OK, I give up! Say no more. When aeronautical technology gets put to work for the people, it will be incredibly valuable. Just think of space travel-- rich people are all competing to go. Even Madonna has signed up. That is a seriously profitable line of business.
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