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职

職
zhí
noun #2,930

Meanings

  1. 1 office; post; position
  2. 2 duty; responsibility
  3. 3 profession; occupation

Examples

他辞职了。
Tā cízhí le.
He resigned.
这是你的职责。
Zhè shì nǐ de zhízé.
This is your responsibility.
她在找新的职位。
Tā zài zhǎo xīn de zhíwèi.
She is looking for a new position.

Tips

usage
职 appears in many work-related compounds: 职业 (career), 职位 (position), 辞职 (resign), 职责 (duty), 兼职 (part-time job).

Components

radical
耳 ěr
ear
Left ear radical — the indexing semantic. Originally 職 was about listening attentively to record: an officer's duty was to listen, remember, and report. The 'office, post, profession' meanings grew out of this attentive-listening role, so the ear is no decoration — it names the work.
phonetic
只 zhī
only; single (here phonetic)
Right component supplies the sound zhí (slight drift from zhī, tone shift). In the traditional form 職 the right side was the more complex 戠 phonetic; the 1956 reform substituted the simpler 只. No semantic role in modern usage — purely a phonetic carrier.

Stroke Order

职 zhí