厂 (chǎng): factory

Measure Word

一家厂 jiā

Meanings

1 factory
2 plant
3 workshop

Characters

厂

chǎng

factory; plant

Examples

这家厂生产手机。

Zhè jiā chǎng shēngchǎn shǒujī.

This factory produces mobile phones.

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.

厂长很关心工人。

Chǎngzhǎng hěn guānxīn gōngrén.

The factory director cares about the workers.

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'.