เจ้า ของ กิจการ
“เจ้า ของ กิจการ” (чао кхонг китган) — entrepreneur; business owner in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "owner of the business": the enterprise is the affair, the deal. The one running his own business the Thai calls in a householder's way — master of it. In a live sentence: “เจ้า ของ กิจการ มา เอง ทุก เช้า” — The owner comes in person every morning. Written with the characters เ, จ, ้, า, ข, อ, ง, ก, ิ, จ, ก, า…
In short
| Written in Thai | เจ้า ของ กิจการ |
| Read in Latin letters | чао кхонг китган |
| Translation | entrepreneur; business owner |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "owner of the business": the enterprise is the affair, the deal. The one running his own business the Thai calls in a householder's way — master of it
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- เจ้า ของ กิจการ มา เอง ทุก เช้าчао кхонг китган ма энг тхук чаоThe owner comes in person every morning
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “entrepreneur; business owner” in Thai?
«เจ้า ของ กิจการ», read “чао кхонг китган”. In a live sentence: “เจ้า ของ กิจการ มา เอง ทุก เช้า” — The owner comes in person every morning. Noun, level B1; written with the characters เ, จ, ้, า, ข, อ, ง, ก, ิ, จ, ก, า…
How is “เจ้า ของ กิจการ” written in Latin letters?
чао кхонг китган. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "owner of the business": the enterprise is the affair, the deal. The one running his own business the Thai calls in a householder's way — master of it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.