business, vocation, arts, performance
業 centers on sustained, purposeful activity: one's work, trade, or profession, and by extension the skilled performance or art that comes from it.
業 originally depicted a type of rack or stand used in music or ritual, later extended to mean work, profession, or performance. The modern form is highly stylized and its component breakdown is not straightforward.
The top 业 looks like a simplified workbench, the middle 䒑 like a pair of hands, and the bottom 未 like an unfinished task. Picture a craftsperson at a bench, hands busy with a work in progress: that's 業, your business or art.
For ギョウ, imagine a skilled performer named Gyo who turns every task into an art: Gyo -> ギョウ, and his performance is the heart of his business.
enterprise; business; company; corporation
business; enterprise; venture; (commercial) activity; (business) operation; industry
business; trade; operations
graduation; completion (of a course)
work; operation; task
business; work; operations; service; duties
business world; business circles; (the) industry
lesson; class; teaching; instruction; classwork; schoolwork
work; business; company; agency
industry
trader; dealer; businessperson; company; vendor; supplier; manufacturer; maker; contractor
occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling; business
overtime (work)
agriculture; farming
establishment (of a business); founding
(manufacturing) industry
commerce; trade; business
side job; sideline; subsidiary business
achievement; performance; results; work; contribution
opening a business; opening a practice
unemployment
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing; one's work
suspension of business; temporary closure (of a store, school, etc.); shutdown; holiday
principal occupation; core business
graduate; alumnus; alumna
fishing industry; fishery
special occupation; principal occupation; specialty; monopoly
type of industry
employment; starting work
industry; business
discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice); retiring
pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course
same trade; same business; same profession
studies; schoolwork; classwork
operation (of a machine, factory, fishing boat, etc.); work
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
start of work; commencement; opening
independent business; self-employment
family business; family trade
forestry
provincial tour
trade; business; occupation; profession; job
pursuing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously
division of labor; division of labour; specialization; specialisation; assembly-line production
farmwork
promotion of industry; inauguration of a new industrial enterprise
mining industry
divine work; miracle; superhuman feat
private clinician; physician in private practice
private enterprise
ceramics; ceramic industry
heavy industry
(encouragement of) industry
service industry; service sector
small and medium-sized enterprises; small and medium-sized businesses
establishment; place of business; business site; office; (production) facility
industrialist; entrepreneur
work environment
graduation ceremony; commencement
after graduation
salesman; businessman
business office; place of business
business hours; opening hours; office hours
Japan International Cooperation Agency (1974); JICA
large company; large enterprise; large corporation
big corporation; major firm; leading company
National Space Development Agency; NASDA
businessperson; businessman; businesswoman; entrepreneur; captain of industry
employee; worker
information industry
while in class
parents' day (day when parents observe their children in school)
tuition fee; course fee
Japanese company (business, firm)
fisheries industry
the industrial world
social work; social project; social enterprise; social welfare service
light industry
agricultural cooperative