工业

Character by character

• 工gōng3 strokesHSK 1labor, work; worker, laborer
• 业yè5 strokesHSK 2 traditional 業profession, business; GB radical 111

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 工业. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 工作gōng zuòHSK 1

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task

• 专业zhuān yèHSK 3

  specialty; specialized field; main field of study (at university); major; professional

• 职业zhí yèHSK 3

  occupation; profession; vocation; professional

• 事业shì yèHSK 3

  undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation

• 毕业bì yèHSK 4

  graduation; to graduate; to finish school

• 员工yuán gōngHSK 3

  staff; personnel; employee

• 商业shāng yèHSK 3

  business; trade; commerce

• 企业qǐ yèHSK 4

  company; firm; enterprise; corporation

• 工具gōng jùHSK 3

  tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)

• 行业háng yèHSK 4

  trade; profession; industry; business

• 工人gōng rénHSK 1

  worker

• 工资gōng zīHSK 3

  wages; pay

• 作业zuò yèHSK 2

  school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate

• 工程gōng chéngHSK 4

  engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking

• 工厂gōng chǎngHSK 3

  factory

• 业yèHSK 7

  line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already

• 业务yè wùHSK 5

  business; professional work; service

• 产业chǎn yèHSK 5

  industry; estate; property; industrial

• 失业shī yèHSK 4

  unemployment; to lose one's job

• 打工dǎ gōngHSK 2

  to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation

• 开工kāi gōngHSK 7

  to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job

• 业余yè yúHSK 4

  in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)

• 工程师gōng chéng shīHSK 3

  engineer

• 人工rén gōngHSK 3

  artificial; manpower; manual work