失業
shī​yè HSK4

to lose one's job

失业 失業 shī//yè
to lose one's job verb + noun
To lose one's job or be unable to find work; to be unemployed.

她的丈夫失业了，所以她在附近的市场上卖蔬菜和水果来赚钱。

tā de zhàng​fu shī yè le, suǒ​yǐ tā zài fù​jìn de shì​chǎng shang mài shū​cài hé shuǐ​guǒ lái zhuàn qián.

Her husband lost his job, so she sells vegetables and fruit at a nearby market to earn money.

他已经失业三年了。

tā yǐ​jing shī yè sān nián le.

He has been unemployed for three years.

unemployment verbnoun
The state of being unemployed

失业现象普遍。

shī​yè xiàn​xiàng pǔ​biàn.

Unemployment is widespread.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
13.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
21.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)