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歇业 (xiē yè) — to go out of business, to close down (a business)

Definition

歇业 (xiē yè) means a business stops operating, either temporarily (例: closed for renovations) or permanently (例: went out of business).

verb
to go out of businessto close down (a business)

Examples

  • 歇业。
    Zhè jiā gōng sī yīn wèi kuī sǔn ér xiē yè le.
    This company went out of business due to losses.
  • 。
    Nà jiā cān guǎn xiē le sān gè yuè yè cái chóng xīn kāi zhāng.
    That restaurant closed for three months before reopening.
  • 歇业，。
    Tīng shuō nà jiā lǎo diàn yǐ jīng xiē yè le, zhēn kě xī.
    I heard that old shop has already closed down, what a shame.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

歇xiēstop
业yèbusiness

歇 means stop or rest, and 业 is the business that stops.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
欠欠qiàn
Sound part声符shēngfú
曷
曷hé歇xiē
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

歇 uses 曷 for its sound hé and 欠 for its meaning.

Open 歇 →

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 業; 业 is its simplified writing.

  • 丵丵zhuóchisel
  • 大大dàperson; big

The traditional 業 is explained as a picture of a beam from which bells and chimes hang, or as a person lifting that beam. The simplified 业 is a shorthand, not the original shape.

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Appears in
Business & Commerce

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