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Chinese symbol for “industrialization”

工业化
gōng yè huà
Traditional: 工業化
to industrialize; industrialization

The closest CC-CEDICT match for industrialization is 工业化 (gōng yè huà), defined as: to industrialize; industrialization.

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Characters and stroke order

工 gōng
labor, work; laborer, worker
radical 48 ⼯ · 3 strokes
业 yè
business, profession; to study, to work
radical 1 ⼀ · 5 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “industrialization”

WordPinyinMeaning
产业化 (產業化)chǎn yè huàto industrialize; industrialization

Related words

Other words that share a character with 工业化.

WordPinyinMeaning
工作gōng zuòto work; (of a machine) to operate
工业 (工業)gōng yèindustry
工程gōng chéngengineering; an engineering project
工具gōng jùtool; instrument
工人gōng rénworker; 个 (gè),名 (míng)
员工 (員工)yuán gōngstaff; personnel; employee
企业 (企業)qǐ yècompany; firm; enterprise; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā)
专业 (專業)zhuān yèspecialty; specialized field
文化wén huàculture; civilization

See also: Japanese symbol for “industrialization”.

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.