作业 zuòyè▶ deberes, tarea

Stroke order

作业 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 作 — 7 strokes
• 业 — 5 strokes

Senses

1. school assignment
2. homework
3. work
4. task
5. operation
6. to operate

Example sentences

• 我在做作业。Wǒ zài zuò zuòyè.I am doing my homework.
• 今天的作业不多。Jīntiān de zuòyè bù duō.There is not much homework today.

Related words

• 专业mayor; principal
• 作家escritor
• 作用Efecto
• 作者autor
• 动作acción
• 毕业graduación

作业 is pronounced zuòyè and means “deberes, tarea”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 作业 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.