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chinainvest
16th September 2007, 08:44 PM
工商业 - Business/Commerce translation help
When you use Google's translation tool, it translates to business in English.
When you use Babelfish translates to Industry and Commerce
So just say if had 工商业.CN
would that be like business.com for China
mgrohan
16th September 2007, 11:41 PM
工商 (gong1 shang1) would translate to something like business/commerce/industry.
Putting the (业 ye4) on the end makes to talk about something as a whole industry:
e.g.
娱乐 = entertainment
娱乐业 = the entertainment industry
机械工+业 = machinery industry
工商业 is mostly used in association names, school subjects, talking about the business world. i.e. school of commerce and industry, or Shanghai federation of business and industry.
As the full 工商业 not a lot of searches on baidu: http://index.baidu.com/main/word.php?word=%B9%A4%C9%CC%D2%B5
but without the 业 - (工商), much more searched and in the news:
http://index.baidu.com/main/word.php?word=%B9%A4%C9%CC
chinainvest
17th September 2007, 03:50 AM
工商 (gong1 shang1) would translate to something like business/commerce/industry.
Putting the (业 ye4) on the end makes to talk about something as a whole industry:
e.g.
娱乐 = entertainment
娱乐业 = the entertainment industry
机械工+业 = machinery industry
工商业 is mostly used in association names, school subjects, talking about the business world. i.e. school of commerce and industry, or Shanghai federation of business and industry.
As the full 工商业 not a lot of searches on baidu: http://index.baidu.com/main/word.php?word=%B9%A4%C9%CC%D2%B5
but without the 业 - (工商), much more searched and in the news:
http://index.baidu.com/main/word.php?word=%B9%A4%C9%CC
Thank you mgrohan for help in clarifying it.
工商 "Preserved name, not available for online registration" on CNNIC
IDNer
17th September 2007, 04:22 AM
工商业 (gong shang ye):
(manufacturing) industry and commerce
Asiaplay
17th September 2007, 05:51 AM
ditto to Mgrohan's remarks... cheers, Asiaplay
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