務
wù

business

务 (務) wù
affair noun
affair, business, or matter

他最近因为公务繁忙，已经好几天没回家了。

tā zuì​jìn yīn​wèi gōng wù fán​máng, yǐ​jīng hǎo​jǐ tiān méi huí​jiā le.

He hasn't been home for several days lately due to his busy work schedule.

attend to idiom
to be engaged in or to devote oneself to

他不务正业，整天只知道在外面胡混。

tā bù wù zhèng​yè, zhěng​tiān zhǐ zhī​dào zài wài​miàn hú​hùn.

He doesn't have a proper job and just fools around outside all day.

must adverb
by all means; must (used to express necessity or command)

开会时务请保持安静。

kāi​huì shí wù qǐng bǎo​chí ān​jìng.

Please be sure to remain quiet during the meeting.

Frequency
Character
Written text
245th most common 910.0 per million
Movie subtitles
498th most common 288.5 per million appears in 66% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.88 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
24.5 per million

Details
Simplified
务
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+52D9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)