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自営 (じえい, jiei) Japanese meaning: self-employment | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 自営する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 自じ 営えい する 自じ 営えい しない Polite 自じ 営えい します 自じ 営えい しません Past polite 自じ 営えい しました 自じ 営えい しませんでした Past 自じ 営えい した 自じ 営えい しなかった Te-form 自じ 営えい して 自じ 営えい しないで Desire 自じ 営えい したい 自じ 営えい したくない Potential 自じ 営えい できる 自じ 営えい できない Passive 自じ 営えい される 自じ 営えい されない Causative 自じ 営えい させる 自じ 営えい させない Causative passive 自じ 営えい させられる 自じ 営えい させられない Volitional 自じ 営えい しよう Polite volitional 自じ 営えい しましょう Imperative 自じ 営えい しろ 自じ 営えい するな Conditional 自じ 営えい すれば 自じ 営えい しなければ Tara conditional 自じ 営えい したら 自じ 営えい しなかったら
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He quit his job and started his own business.
Self-employed people need to file a tax return.
Usage patterns 自じ 営えい 業ぎょう を 始はじ める to start one's own business (become self-employed)
I decided to quit my company job and start my own business.
自じ 営えい で 〈 事じ 業ぎょう 〉 を 営いとな む to run a business on one's own, independently
He runs a small restaurant independently.
自じ 営えい に 転てん じる to switch to self-employment (from being an employee)
More and more office workers are switching to self-employment.
Related words 独立 broadly means becoming independent or starting one's own venture, while 自営 specifically denotes the ongoing state of running one's own business rather than working for an employer.
個人事業 is the formal legal/tax term for a sole proprietorship, whereas 自営 is the more general everyday word for being self-employed.
フリーランス refers to working independently on a contract basis without a fixed employer, while 自営 more strongly implies actually operating one's own business.
自営 means running one's own independent business, while 直営 means a company or organization directly operates a branch, store, or facility itself rather than through a franchise or subsidiary.
自営 is the standard business/tax term for being self-employed, while 自前 is a more casual way to describe someone working independently.
Etymology Compound of 自 (self) and 営 (manage, operate). The word is a straightforward Sino-Japanese formation.
