Talk:土木

土木 (どぼく or doboku) appears to mean the same thing in Japanese as it does in Mandarin; this page translates it as "engineering work". However, I can't seem to find this exact phrase in either of my Japanese-English dictionaries.

|en|%E5%9C%9F%E6%9C%A8%E3%80%82 Google Translate suggests "Civil Engineering", and the Collins English-Japanese dictionary (ISBN 0-00-719655-5) does have an entry for "Civil Engineer", which it gives as 土木技師 (どぼくぎし or dobokugishi).

Based on this, I'm thinking that "Civil Engineering" is probably a better translation than "building" - but I'd appreciate a second opinion, given than I'm not a native speaker of Japanese. GoBusto 21:50, 11 December 2011 (UTC)