失业
Meaning
- unemployment
- to lose one's job
Example sentence
他失业了。
He has lost his job.
Characters in 失业
- 失 shī to lose; to fail, to miss
- 业 yè trade, industry; course of study
失 to lose plus 业, an occupation. 业 gives 职业 and 就业; a verb-object pair, so it splits.