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Chinese symbol for “sweatshop”

血汗工厂
xuè hàn gōng chǎng
Traditional: 血汗工廠
sweatshop

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sweatshop is 血汗工厂 (xuè hàn gōng chǎng), defined as: sweatshop.

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Characters and stroke order

血 xuè
blood
radical 143 ⾎ · 6 strokes
汗 hàn
perspiration, sweat
radical 85 ⽔ · 6 strokes
工 gōng
labor, work; laborer, worker
radical 48 ⼯ · 3 strokes
厂 chǎng
cliff; factory, workshop; building
radical 27 ⼚ · 2 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 血汗工厂.

WordPinyinMeaning
血液xuè yèblood; (fig.) lifeblood
血腥xuè xīngreeking of blood; bloody (events)
流血liú xuèto bleed; to shed blood
血统 (血統)xuè tǒngblood relationship; lineage
血管xuè guǎnvein; artery
吸血鬼xī xuè guǐleech; bloodsucking vermin
汗水hàn shuǐsweat; perspiration
血汗xuè hàn(fig.) sweat and toil; hard work
工作gōng zuòto work; (of a machine) to operate
工厂 (工廠)gōng chǎngfactory; measure word: 家 (jiā), 座 (zuò)

See also: Japanese symbol for “sweatshop”.

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.