Chinese symbol for “format”
业态
yè tài
Traditional: 業態
(retail industry) format
The closest CC-CEDICT match for format is 业态 (yè tài), defined as: (retail industry) format.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “format”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 版式 | bǎn shì | format |
| 格式 | gé shì | form; specification |
| 制式 | zhì shì | standardized; standard (service, method etc) |
| 格式化 | gé shì huà | (computing) to format |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 业态.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 企业 (企業) | qǐ yè | company; firm; enterprise; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 专业 (專業) | zhuān yè | specialty; specialized field |
| 工业 (工業) | gōng yè | industry |
| 农业 (農業) | nóng yè | agriculture; farming |
| 产业 (產業) | chǎn yè | industry; estate |
| 职业 (職業) | zhí yè | occupation; profession; vocation; professional |
| 状态 (狀態) | zhuàng tài | condition; state; state of affairs |
| 态度 (態度) | tài du | manner; bearing |
See also: Japanese symbol for “format”.
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.