业余

Pinyin: yèyú

in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 adjective

Example sentence

观察鸟类是个很好的业余爱好。

Guānchá niǎolèi shì ge hěn hǎo de yèyú àihào.

Bird watching is a nice hobby.

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What 业余 means

业余 (yèyú) is an Chinese word meaning “in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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