Chinese symbol for “tool”
工具
gōng jù
tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tool is 工具 (gōng jù), defined as: tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “tool”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 工具.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 工人 | gōng rén | worker; 个 (gè),名 (míng) |
| 员工 (員工) | yuán gōng | staff; personnel; employee |
| 具有 | jù yǒu | to have; to possess |
| 具体 (具體) | jù tǐ | concrete; specific; detailed |
| 具备 (具備) | jù bèi | to possess; to have |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tool”.
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.