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Chinese symbol for “metalworking”

金工
jīn gōng
metalworking

The closest CC-CEDICT match for metalworking is 金工 (jīn gōng), defined as: metalworking.

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Characters and stroke order

金 jīn
gold, metal; money
radical 167 ⾦ · 8 strokes
工 gōng
labor, work; laborer, worker
radical 48 ⼯ · 3 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 金工.

WordPinyinMeaning
资金 (資金)zī jīnfunds; capital
金融jīn róngbanking; finance
基金jī jīnfund
黄金 (黃金)huáng jīngold; golden (opportunity)
金额 (金額)jīn ésum of money; amount of money
金属 (金屬)jīn shǔmetal; 种 (zhǒng)
工作gōng zuòto work; (of a machine) to operate
工业 (工業)gōng yèindustry

See also: Japanese symbol for “metalworking”.

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.