Chinese symbol for “strike”
罢工
bà gōng
Traditional: 罷工
a strike; to go on strike
The closest CC-CEDICT match for strike is 罢工 (bà gōng), defined as: a strike; to go on strike.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “strike”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打 | dǎ | to hit; to strike; to fight |
| 撞击 (撞擊) | zhuàng jī | to strike; to hit; to ram |
| 击中 (擊中) | jī zhòng | to hit (a target); to strike |
| 猛打 | měng dǎ | to strike; wham! |
| 打击 (打擊) | dǎ jī | to hit; to strike |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 罢工.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罢了 (罷了) | bà le | a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) |
| 罢免 (罷免) | bà miǎn | to remove sb from their post; to dismiss |
| 也罢 (也罷) | yě bà | (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind |
| 罢课 (罷課) | bà kè | student strike; to boycott classes |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 工业 (工業) | gōng yè | industry |
| 工程 | gōng chéng | engineering; an engineering project |
| 工具 | gōng jù | tool; instrument |
See also: Japanese symbol for “strike”.
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.