業績
Meaning in Englishachievement, work, contribution
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What it means
What does 業績 mean? It denotes the achievements or track record of a person, company, or project, emphasizing measurable results produced through work and activity. It commonly appears in business reports, resumes, and performance reviews to summarize past success.
Main meanings
- concrete results and outcomes that form a track record across a period
- the documented performance of an organization or individual, often backed by numbers
- a realm of professional success used in evaluation and reporting
How to use it
Used in formal written and spoken contexts to refer to corporate or individual results, performance, and history of achievement; common in annual reports, corporate summaries, résumés, and performance assessments; typically encountered with particles or in verb phrases like 業績を上げる, though construction details are not included here.
Variants and close terms
- 実績 (jisseki) — concrete results or track record
- 成績 (seiseki) — performance, results, including academic grades
- 成果 (seika) — outcomes, achievements
Composition
- 業: work, business, affair
- 績: merit, achievement, record
- Combination: the record of produced results through work, yielding a sense of overall performance or achievements
Etymology
業 ぎょう and 績 せき are Sino-Japanese on'yomi readings; together they create a compound whose current pronunciation in Japanese is gyōseki; the phonetic form reflects historical Chinese phonology being adapted into Japanese vocabulary.
Origin
Borrowed into Japanese with the two kanji from Chinese writing. The concept appeared in formal contexts where work results were recorded, and it grew in use with modern business and administration; earliest attestations align with classical Chinese and later Japanese bureaucratic discourse.
Word class
noun (名詞)