厂 (chǎng): factory

Measure Word

一家厂 jiā

Meanings

1 factory
2 plant
3 workshop

Characters

厂

chǎng

factory; plant

Examples

HSK 1

他在厂里工作了十年。

Tā zài chǎng lǐ gōngzuò le shí nián.

He worked in the factory for ten years.

HSK 2

厂长很关心工人。

Chǎngzhǎng hěn guānxīn gōngrén.

The factory director cares about the workers.

HSK 3

这家厂生产手机。

Zhè jiā chǎng shēngchǎn shǒujī.

This factory produces mobile phones.

Tips

usage

Common compounds: 工厂 (factory), 厂长 (factory director), 厂商 (manufacturer), 厂房 (factory building).

register

厂 is also Kangxi radical 27, the 'cliff / shelter' radical, classically read hǎn. That reading is just the radical's name in character lookup; as a standalone word it is always chǎng (factory).

Components

pictograph

厂 chǎng

factory; cliff; lean-to

A two-stroke pictograph of an overhanging cliff or lean-to shelter: a horizontal rock face above, a descending stroke for the open side. It is Kangxi radical 27 and wraps 厨, 厕, 厦. The 'factory' sense was added when the script reform borrowed this glyph as a shorthand for 廠.

Radical

Cliff Kangxi #27

The 厂 radical, originally a pictograph of an overhanging cliff or shelter. Indexes characters tied to crags, slopes, or sheltered spaces (厅, 历, 厉, 厌, 原, 厚), even though in simplified Chinese the standalone 厂 is best known as 'factory'.