Illustration: Inside a Japanese metalwares production facility, a continuous sequence of work turns stacked metal discs into rows of finished kettles. A guarded press shapes the bodies, another station fits handles, and workers inspect completed pieces before placing them into reusable crates.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

工こう業ぎょう

kougyou

manufacturing industry

Example sentences

工業こうぎょう都市としです。
It is an industrial city.
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日本にっぽんは工業こうぎょう国こくだ。
Japan is an industrial nation.
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７月しちがつの工業こうぎょう生産せいさんは急増きゅうぞうした。
Industrial production rose sharply in July.
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Kanji in 工業

工craft; constructionOnコウ・ク・グ
業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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