Chinese symbol for “dockyard”

造船厂

zào chuán chǎng

Traditional: 造船廠

dockyard; shipyard

The closest CC-CEDICT match for dockyard is 造船厂 (zào chuán chǎng), defined as: dockyard; shipyard.

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Characters and stroke order

造 zào

to build, to construct, to invent, to manufacture

radical 162 ⾡ · 11 strokes

船 chuán

ship, boat, vessel

radical 137 ⾈ · 11 strokes

厂 chǎng

cliff; factory, workshop; building

radical 27 ⼚ · 2 strokes

Traditional forms

廠 chǎng

Related words

Other words that share a character with 造船厂.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
造成	zào chéng	to bring about; to create; to cause
创造 (創造)	chuàng zào	to create; to bring about
制造 (製造)	zhì zào	to manufacture; to make
建造	jiàn zào	to construct; to build
改造	gǎi zào	to transform; to reform
打造	dǎ zào	to forge (metal); (fig.) to create; to build; to develop
船只 (船隻)	chuán zhī	ship; boat
船长 (船長)	chuán zhǎng	captain (of a boat); skipper
工厂 (工廠)	gōng chǎng	factory; measure word: 家 (jiā), 座 (zuò)

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.