本业

Traditional form:

本業

Pinyin (reading):

běnyè

Definitions:

• business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying)
• original business
• core business
• (literary) agriculture

Characters:

• 本 - root, origin, source; basis
• 业 - business, profession; to study, to work

Traditional characters:

• 本 - root, origin, source; basis
• 業 - business, profession; to study, to work