业
yèYè HSK2

profession

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top 5 strokes

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Original meaning: attack

Simplified character from the top 5 strokes of the traditional 業.

Components

丵
丵 SimplifiedRemnant component
zhuó chisel

Shorthand for the 丵 component. Depicts a chisel-shaped weapon.

大
大 Deleted component
dà, dài big

Depicts a person.

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.168-169Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Readings & variants
Unicode