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[1] [n] labor; work [2] [n] worker; laborer [3] [n] shift; time used in doing a piece of work [4] [n] day's work [5] [n] engineering or building project [6] [n] defense work [7] fine; delicate [8] [v] be skilled in [9] KangXi radical 48 Default PoS:  Additional PoS:  Stroke count: 3
Level: 1
Radical: 工 (#48)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 26426 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44 |
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仵工
ng5 gung1 = pallbearer
工作
gung1 zok3 = work, job, task
石工
sek6 gung1 = mason; masonry
女工
neoi5 gung1 = a working woman, working-class girl
返工
faan1 gung1 = go to work; redo a job
加工
gaa1 gung1 = to process
做工
zou6 gung1 = to work; to do work
手工
sau2 gung1 = handwork; manual (not automatic)
工夫
gung1 fu1 = time; labour; skill
工人
gung1 jan4 = labourerSee all 291 compounds (CantoDict reports 364 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing 10 of 28 examples containing 工
我每朝都喺七點鐘開工，所以我夜晚唔可以出街 粵
I start work at 7 o'clock each morning, so I can't stay out too late. [Lit. I every morning also at 7 o'clock open-work, so I late cannot go-out]
我聽朝喺六點鐘開工，所以我今晚唔可以行公司 粵
I‘ve got to start work at six tomorrow, so I can't go shopping tonight. [Lit. I tomorrow morning at six o'clock start-work, therefore I this-evening cannot go-shopping]
佢用把刀插入個員工 粵
He used a knife to stab the worker. [lit. he use [counter] knife enter-in [counter] worker. Std. Chinese: 他用一把利刀刺入一位員工]
佢偷公司錢﹐結果冇咗份工。 粵
He stole money from the company and has, consequently, lost his job. [Compared with English version, a typical Cantonese sentence does not need article (the), pronoun (his), preposition (from), and conjunction (and). But it needs a classifier (份) not found in English version. ] |
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Decimal representation of this word: 工
Unicode code for this character: U+5de5 (off-site link)
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Decimal representation of this word: 工
Unicode code for this character: U+5de5 (off-site link)
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