Chinese symbol for “fortification”
防御工事
fáng yù gōng shì
Traditional: 防禦工事
fortification; defensive structure
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fortification is 防御工事 (fáng yù gōng shì), defined as: fortification; defensive structure.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “fortification”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 防御工事.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 防止 | fáng zhǐ | to prevent; to guard against |
| 预防 (預防) | yù fáng | to prevent; to take precautions against |
| 国防 (國防) | guó fáng | national defense |
| 防御 (防禦) | fáng yù | defense; to defend |
| 防治 | fáng zhì | to prevent and cure; prevention and cure |
| 防范 (防範) | fáng fàn | to be on guard; wariness |
| 抵御 (抵禦) | dǐ yù | to resist; to withstand |
| 御史 | yù shǐ | imperial censor (formal title of a dynastic official) |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fortification”.
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.