工
Meanings
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- 1.work
- 2.worker
- 3.skill
- 4.profession
- 5.trade
- 6.craft
- 7.labor
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Wiktionary
- 1.labour; work (Classifier: 份 c)
- 2.work; job; profession (Classifier: 份 c)
- 3.working day; daytime; a day (24 hours)
- 4.worker; labourer
- 5.man-day
- 6.construction
- 7.industry
- 8.engineer
- 9.skill; technique
- 10.to be good at; to be skilled in
- 11.delicate; exquisite; fine
- 12.Kunqu gongche notation for the note mi (3).
- 13.Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note mi (3).
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a bladed tool to plow the ground and to mark a border. As an alternative, a carpenter's square; according to the second interpretation, the character is related to the original meaning of 巨. Unrelated to 巠 > 𢀖 and 壬. An area word; compare Burmese ခိုင်း (hkuing:, “to order or ask someone to do something”), Old Mon kloñ (kloɲ, “to work”), Old Mon klon (klon, “to have charge of cultivation”) (Schuessler, 2007). Etymologically the same word as 功 (OC *koːŋ, “merit; achievement”) and 攻 (OC *koːŋ, *kuːŋ, “to attack”). The senses evolved in the following manner: 工 (“work, artisan”) > 功 (“merit; achievement”); 工 (“to work”) > 攻 (“to attack”) (ibid.).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
湯姆罷工了。
Tom is on strike.
我是一名電工。
I am an electrician.
工業發展迅速。
Industry was growing quickly.
我是一名電工。
I'm an electrician.
那家工廠生產玩具。
That factory makes toys.
他在一家工廠工作。
He works in a factory.
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Derived terms
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