Chinese symbol for “guild”
公会
gōng huì
Traditional: 公會
guild; professional or trade association
The closest CC-CEDICT match for guild is 公会 (gōng huì), defined as: guild; professional or trade association.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “guild”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 会社 (會社) | huì shè | a guild; (in olden times) an association such as a political party, religious group or trade guild |
| 行会 (行會) | háng huì | guild |
| 基尔特 (基爾特) | jī ěr tè | guild (loanword) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 公会.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 公民 | gōng mín | citizen |
| 公布 (公佈) | gōng bù | variant of 公布 (gōng bù) |
| 公里 | gōng lǐ | kilometer |
| 社会 (社會) | shè huì | society |
| 不会 (不會) | bù huì | improbable; unlikely |
| 会议 (會議) | huì yì | meeting; conference |
See also: Japanese symbol for “guild”.
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.