失业

失业 shīyè in a sentence

Unemployment

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

失业 (shīyè) means Unemployment. 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

他去年 失业 了。

Tā qùnián shī yè le.

He lost his job last year.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失业

失业 以后他回学校读书。

Shī yè yǐhòu tā huí xuéxiào dú shū.

After losing his job he went back to study.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失业

生病又 失业 ,真是雪上加霜。

Shēngbìng yòu shīyè, zhēnshi xuěshàngjiāshuāng.

Falling ill and then losing his job was one blow after another.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 雪上加霜

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How is 失业 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 失业 (shīyè, "Unemployment"), 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 失业 an HSK word?

Yes — 失业 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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The dictionary page for 失业 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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