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失业

shīyè

“Unemployment” in Chinese is 失业 (shīyè).

Meaning

  • unemployment
  • to lose one's job

Example

他失业了。

He has lost his job.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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Not to be confused with: 事业 (shìyè, undertaking) · 视野 (shìyě, field of view)