实业家

實業家

shíyèjiā

noun #35,192

Measure Word

一位实业家 wèi

Meanings

1 industrialist
2 captain of industry
3 businessperson running real-economy enterprises

Characters

real; substantial

industry; profession

expert; -ist (suffix)

Examples

他是一位享誉全国的著名实业家。

Tā shì yí wèi xiǎngyù quánguó de zhùmíng shíyèjiā.

He is a renowned industrialist with a national reputation.

二十世纪初的中国实业家积极推动民族工业。

Èrshí shìjì chū de Zhōngguó shíyèjiā jījí tuīdòng mínzú gōngyè.

Early-20th-century Chinese industrialists actively promoted national industry.

Tips

register

实业 means 'real industry' — manufacturing, mining, transport — as opposed to finance or speculation. So 实业家 carries a more respectable, productive connotation than 商人 ('merchant') or 资本家 ('capitalist'). Famous Chinese 实业家 include 张謇 Zhang Jian and 荣毅仁 Rong Yiren.

Stroke Order

实 shí

业 yè

家 jiā