Zi:业
业(F業) [yè] 商业 commerce; 工业 industry; 作业 homework (!丠)
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“A 木 tree crowded with its 丵 foliage. The moral foliage, the deeds of a man, the affairs upon which he exerts his activity, and what he acquires by his doings, viz. merits, goods, titles, etc.” —Wieger.
Only the highest leaves are left in the simple form 业.
Some scholars believe 业(業) to have been a picture of a musical instrument, not a plant (Henshall).
The fact that 叶(葉) yè ‘leaf’ sounds the same seems to be coincidental, since the ancient pronunciations had different initial consonants (*ng- vs. *d-). The Cantonese pronunciations are also different: 业 yihp; 叶 hihp.
►references: Wieger:102i; Henshall:260; Karlgren:AD229; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.15.4; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:014.1.01
►components: 一
►Cantonese: yihp-
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