Bird watching is a nice hobby.
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业余
Traditional: 業餘
yè yú
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yè yú · jip6 jyu4 (Jyutping)
- in one's spare time
- outside working hours
- amateur (historian etc)
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
My hobby is taking pictures of wild flowers.
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