Chinese symbol for “industry”
工业
gōng yè
Traditional: 工業
industry
The closest CC-CEDICT match for industry is 工业 (gōng yè), defined as: industry.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “industry”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 产业 (產業) | chǎn yè | industry; estate |
| 实业 (實業) | shí yè | industry; commercial enterprise |
| 业界 (業界) | yè jiè | industry |
| 行业 (行業) | háng yè | trade; profession; industry; business |
| 业内 (業內) | yè nèi | (within) the industry; the profession |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 工业.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 工程 | gōng chéng | engineering; an engineering project |
| 工具 | gōng jù | tool; instrument |
| 工人 | gōng rén | worker; 个 (gè),名 (míng) |
| 员工 (員工) | yuán gōng | staff; personnel; employee |
| 企业 (企業) | qǐ yè | company; firm; enterprise; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 专业 (專業) | zhuān yè | specialty; specialized field |
| 农业 (農業) | nóng yè | agriculture; farming |
See also: Japanese symbol for “industry”.
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.