业余

业余 yèyú in a sentence

Extra-curricular (spare time - after hours - amateur)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

业余 (yèyú) means Extra-curricular (spare time - after hours - amateur). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

这是一支 业余 球队。

Zhè shì yì zhī yèyú qiúduì.

This is an amateur team.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 业余

他利用 业余 时间学画画。

Tā lìyòng yèyú shíjiān xué huà huà.

He uses his spare time to learn painting.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 业余

他利用 业余 时间不断充实自己。

Tā lìyòng yèyú shíjiān búduàn chōngshí zìjǐ.

He uses his spare time to keep enriching himself.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 充实

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How is 业余 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 业余 (yèyú, "Extra-curricular (spare time - after hours - amateur)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 业余 an HSK word?

Yes — 业余 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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