Chinese symbol for “draughtsman”

起造员

qǐ zào yuán

Traditional: 起造員

draftsman; draughtsman

The closest CC-CEDICT match for draughtsman is 起造员 (qǐ zào yuán), defined as: draftsman; draughtsman.

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Characters and stroke order

起 qǐ

to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up

radical 156 ⾛ · 10 strokes

造 zào

to build, to construct, to invent, to manufacture

radical 162 ⾡ · 11 strokes

员 yuán

employee; member; personnel, staff

radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

員 yuán

Related words

Other words that share a character with 起造员.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
起来 (起來)	qǐ lai	to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]
一起	yī qǐ	(in) the same place; together; in company (with)
引起	yǐn qǐ	to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
看起来 (看起來)	kàn qǐ lai	seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
想起	xiǎng qǐ	to recall; to think of
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
委员会 (委員會)	wěi yuán huì	committee; commission

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.