业余
yè​yú HSK4

spare time

业余 業餘 yè​yú
spare time nounadjective
Spare time; outside of working hours or school hours

今天的教授似乎都变成了专业的筹资人，只在业余时间做一些研究。

jīn​tiān de jiào​shòu sì​hū dōu biàn chéng le zhuān​yè de chóu zī rén, zhǐ zài yè​yú shí​jiān zuò yī​xiē yán​jiū.

Professors nowadays seem to have become professional fundraisers who do a little research on the side.

amateur adjective
Amateur; non-professional

既有专业作家，也有很多业余作家。

jì yǒu zhuān​yè zuò​jiā, yě yǒu hěn​duō yè​yú zuò​jiā.

There are professional writers and there are amateur writers.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
13.2 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
16.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)