业余 yèyú▶ amateur

Traditional

業餘

Stroke order

业余 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 业 — 5 strokes
• 余 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. in one's spare time
2. outside working hours
3. amateur (historian etc)

Characters in 业余

• 业 yè — line of business; industry; occupation
• 余 yú — (literary) I; me; extra; surplus

Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Related words

• 业务business
• 企业enterprise
• 其余Rest
• 农业Agriculture
• 商业business
• 多余surplus

业余 is pronounced yèyú and means “amateur”.

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