Chinese symbol for “engine”
发动机
fā dòng jī
Traditional: 發動機
engine; motor; 台 (tái)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for engine is 发动机 (fā dòng jī), defined as: engine; motor; 台 (tái).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “engine”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 引擎 | yǐn qíng | engine (loanword); 台 (tái) |
| 轮机 (輪機) | lún jī | turbine (abbr. for 涡轮机 (wō lún jī)); engine (of a ship) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 发动机.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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") |
| 发现 (發現) | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 发布 (發佈) | fā bù | variant of 发布 (fā bù) |
| 活动 (活動) | huó dòng | to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 行动 (行動) | xíng dòng | operation; action |
| 机构 (機構) | jī gòu | mechanism; structure |
See also: Japanese symbol for “engine”.
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.