Chinese symbol for “educator”

教育工作者

jiào yù gōng zuò zhě

educator

The closest CC-CEDICT match for educator is 教育工作者 (jiào yù gōng zuò zhě), defined as: educator.

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Characters and stroke order

教 jiào

school, education

radical 66 ⽁ · 11 strokes

育 yù

to produce, to give birth to; to educate

radical 130 ⾁ · 8 strokes

工 gōng

labor, work; laborer, worker

radical 48 ⼯ · 3 strokes

作 zuò

to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform

radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

者 zhě

that which; they who; those who

radical 125 ⽼ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 教育工作者.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
教育	jiào yù	to educate; to teach
教师 (教師)	jiào shī	teacher; 个 (gè)
宗教	zōng jiào	religion
教授	jiāo shòu	to teach (a subject)
教学 (教學)	jiāo xué	to teach
体育 (體育)	tǐ yù	sports; physical education
发育 (發育)	fā yù	to develop; to mature
培育	péi yù	to train; to breed
工作	gōng zuò	to work; (of a machine) to operate
作为 (作為)	zuò wéi	one's conduct; deed
记者 (記者)	jì zhě	reporter; journalist; 个 (gè)

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.