化工

chemical industry, abbr. of 化學工業|化学工业[hua4 xue2 gong1 ye4] / chemical engineering, abbr. of 化學工程|化学工程[hua4 xue2 gong1 cheng2]

Characters and words in 化工

化

hua̅ = hu + a1

variant of 花[hua1]

化

huà = hu + a4

to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]

化 = 亻 + 匕 : Helga Horse and Rosa Luxemburg conduct an experiment in the ashram's bathroom. Using a transformer, they melt a ladle.

工

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

工 = 二 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.