Chinese symbol for “porter”
搬运工
bān yùn gōng
Traditional: 搬運工
porter
The closest CC-CEDICT match for porter is 搬运工 (bān yùn gōng), defined as: porter.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “porter”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挑夫 | tiāo fū | porter |
| 脚夫 (腳夫) | jiǎo fū | porter; bearer |
| 波特 | bō tè | (loanword) baud (computing); porter (beer) |
| 门房 (門房) | mén fáng | gatehouse; lodge |
| 脚户 (腳戶) | jiǎo hù | porter; donkey driver |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 搬运工.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搬迁 (搬遷) | bān qiān | to move; to relocate |
| 搬家 | bān jiā | to move house; to relocate; to remove (sth) |
| 搬运 (搬運) | bān yùn | to transport; to carry; (coll.) to repost (content, esp. from another platform) |
| 搬走 | bān zǒu | to carry |
| 照搬 | zhào bān | to copy; to imitate |
| 运动 (運動) | yùn dòng | to move; to exercise |
| 运用 (運用) | yùn yòng | to use; to put to use |
| 运行 (運行) | yùn xíng | (of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course; (fig.) to function; to be in operation |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “porter”.
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.