对外贸易经济合作部

Traditional form:

對外貿易經濟合作部

Pinyin (reading):

Duìwài Màoyì Jīngjì Hézuòbù

Definitions:

• Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC)

Characters:

• 对 - correct, right; facing, opposed
• 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
• 贸 - commerce, trade
• 易 - to change; to exchange, to trade; simple, easy
• 经 - the classics; to experience, to undergo
• 济 - to aid, to help, to relieve; to ferry across
• 合 - to combine, to join, to unite; to gather
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 部 - department, ministry; division, unit; part, section

Traditional characters:

• 對 - correct, right; facing, opposed
• 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
• 貿 - commerce, trade
• 易 - to change; to exchange, to trade; simple, easy
• 經 - the classics; to experience, to undergo
• 濟 - to aid, to help, to relieve; to ferry across
• 合 - to combine, to join, to unite; to gather
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 部 - department, ministry; division, unit; part, section