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What does “失业” mean in Chinese?

This clip jokes that a one-tap beauty-filter app is about to make video editors 失业 — jobless. The word is 失 “lose” plus 业 “line of work,” and that second character unlocks a whole career vocabulary: 毕业 (finish your studies — graduate), 专业 (your major), 行业 (an industry), 事业 (a career), 就业 (to get employed). Working life in Chinese is largely the story of one character.

失 runs its own family in the other direction: 失望 (lose hope — disappointed), 失眠 (lose sleep — insomnia), 失恋 (lose a love — get your heart broken). Compounds like these are why Chinese vocabulary snowballs: two small families, one shared character each, and 失业 sits exactly at the intersection.