HSK 5 · Work

工业 gōngyè “industry” in Chinese

Traditional 工業

What 工业 means

  1. industry

How to say 工业

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale工gōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale业yè4th tone, falling

工业 in a sentence

  1. 许多人在工业城市工作。

    Xǔduō rén zài gōngyè chéngshì gōngzuò.

    Many people work in industrial cities.

    Sentence #332869 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 工业发展迅速。

    Gōngyè fāzhǎn xùnsù.

    Industry was growing quickly.

    Sentence #6058556 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她是工业设计师。

    Tā shì gōngyè shèjìshī.

    She’s an industrial designer.

    Sentence #897537 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 工业 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 工 (gōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
工gōngwork
  • 一one · yī
  • 丄above · shàng

Memory aidDrawn from a builder’s tool: work.

The character 业 (yè) drawn as one shape
业yèline of business

业 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 工业

工 3 strokes · 业 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

工业 (gōngyè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 工业 (gōngyè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 工业

Words with 工

工作gōngzuò · to work工作日gōngzuòrì · working day工资gōngzī · wages工厂gōngchǎng · factory打工dǎgōng · to work a casual or part-time job工人gōngrén · worker员工yuángōng · employee工具gōngjù · tool手工shǒugōng · handmade工程师gōngchéngshī · engineer

Words with 业

作业zuòyè · school assignment毕业bìyè · graduation专业zhuānyè · major (at university)职业zhíyè · occupation业余yèyú · spare-time农业nóngyè · agriculture企业qǐyè · company商业shāngyè · business失业shīyè · unemployment行业hángyè · trade

More words: Work & Career

导演dǎoyǎn · director (of a film or play)改革gǎigé · reform工程师gōngchéngshī · engineer工人gōngrén · worker合同hétong · (business) contract合作hézuò · to cooperate兼职jiānzhí · part-time job会计kuàijì · accountant

FAQs

工业 (gōngyè) means “industry”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it gōngyè: gōng with a 1st tone, then yè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 工业 is written 工業. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongye with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 工业 from the suggestions. Typing gongye into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
工业 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.