Assignment in Chinese
assignment · HSK 3
作业
- 作 to do
- 业 line of business
Counted with 份: 一份作业
今天的作业太多了。 There's too much homework today.
Other ways to say assignment
More words with 作 or 业
How do you say assignment in Chinese?
Assignment in Chinese is 作业 (zuò yè). You can also say 任务 (rèn wù).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.