业大

業大

yèdà

noun #34,864

Meanings

1 part-time college
2 vocational college (abbreviation of 业余大学)

Characters

business; profession (here: 业余, spare-time)

big (here: 大学, university)

Examples

他白天上班,晚上在业大上课。

Tā báitiān shàngbān, wǎnshàng zài yèdà shàngkè.

He works during the day and takes classes at a part-time college in the evenings.

我妈妈毕业于一所业大。

Wǒ māma bìyè yú yī suǒ yèdà.

My mother graduated from a part-time college.

Tips

history

业大 is short for 业余大学 (yèyú dàxué, "spare-time university"). These were a major adult-education channel in 1980s–90s China for workers earning degrees while keeping their jobs, before evening MBAs and online universities took over.

Stroke Order

业 yè

大 dà