Chinese symbol for “developer”
开发商
kāi fā shāng
Traditional: 開發商
developer (of real estate, a commercial product etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for developer is 开发商 (kāi fā shāng), defined as: developer (of real estate, a commercial product etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “developer”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开发者 (開發者) | kāi fā zhě | developer |
| 开发人员 (開發人員) | kāi fā rén yuán | developer |
| 发展商 (發展商) | fā zhǎn shāng | (HK) (real estate etc) developer |
| 显影剂 (顯影劑) | xiǎn yǐng jì | developer (photographic processing); contrast medium (medical imaging) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 开发商.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开始 (開始) | kāi shǐ | to begin; to start; beginning; start |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 开放 (開放) | kāi fàng | to bloom; to open |
| 召开 (召開) | zhào kāi | to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke |
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 商业 (商業) | shāng yè | business; trade |
See also: Japanese symbol for “developer”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.