See How Fast You Can Learn Chinese
Try our interactive spaced repetition demo—study your first words in 60 seconds
工
Sign in to save this word to your study lists.
Definitions
- 1. work
- 2. worker
- 3. skill
- 4. profession
- 5. trade
- 6. craft
- 7. labor
Example Sentences
1 shownDorothy 不在辦 工 室。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 工
construction site
art design
needleworker
(neologism c. 2010) (slang) a person used by sb as a means to an end
China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC)
hired laborer
plumber
a sawyer
To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job
artisan
to be late for or absent from work
craftsman engaged in carving characters
work unit
employee number
workday
male worker
artificial concept
to industrialize
The Artificer's Record, a technology treaty compiled towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period
young female worker
worker bee
lathe work
road construction
Anhui University of Architecture
sweatshop
different tunes played with equal skill (idiom)
to finish work
(mining) coalface
engineer
to complete a project
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
to work a temporary or casual job
to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
employment as sex worker
fellow workers
to divide up the work
bricklaying
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Sinopec
to go to work
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
fortification
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
skilled worker
Northwestern Polytechnical University
miner
wage ceiling
child labor
handicraft article
young worker
derivative (finance)
being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC)
apprentice
workflow
labor cost
to skip work
grade 8 worker (highest on the eight grade wage scale)
OEM (original equipment manufacturer)
working class
to stop work
working couple (husband and wife both employed)
Workers Stadium
multithreading
I-beam
to work part time while studying
kansei engineering (product design that aims to engender specific subjective responses in the consumer) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 感性工学 \kansei kougaku\)
heavy industry
China North Industries Corporation (Norinco)
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
temporary worker; temp
mason
work clothes
plumbing and electrical work
water-induction engineering
United Front Work Department of CCP Central Committee (UFWD)
replacement worker
grinder's disease
standard salary for a specific job (contrasted with performance pay 績效工資|绩效工资[jì xiào gōng zī] or commission 提成[tí chéng] etc)
industry and agriculture
patient work makes a fine product
genetic engineering
earthwork
to work against the clock
textile industry
kitchen helper; assistant cook
hourly worker
full-time work
unskilled worker
routine
processing cost
modernization of industry, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
to stop work
engineering as an academic subject
artificial intelligence (AI)
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
lathe operator
social work
toolbar (in computer software)
arts and crafts
to skimp on the job and stint on materials (idiom)
East China University of Science and Technology
factory
staff member
worker
bioengineering
means of transportation
student who also works part-time
working memory
worker employed by the month
Workers' Daily, Chinese newspaper founded in 1949
workload
God of Water
computer industry
to idle on the job
the proletariat
plumber
unit in charge of construction
to work with one's hands
nuclear industry
workbench
workers; staff
electrical engineering
light engineering
(of a student) to work part-time (while continuing one's studies)
technical school
industrialized country
Baisha Gongnong area in Dazhou 達州|达州[dá zhōu], Sichuan northeast Sichuan, amalgamated into Wanyuan, county-level city 萬源|万源[wàn yuán] in 1993
construction worker
geek
Gongnong district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[hè gǎng], Heilongjiang
time course
worker's party
working report
food processor
oral inflation
cleaner
Norinco, PRC state-run conglomerate
military engineer
mechanical engineering
Beijing University of Technology
Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
Hebei University of Technology
fine work
engineering
pallbearer
plumber
river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc)
to slacken off in one's work
to work as a laborer
computer-aided engineering
full-stack developer (computing)
engineering
machine tool
industry and mining
defensive structure
names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
to recruit employees
laborers who carry cargo up and down the mountains on shoulder poles
Dalian University of Technology
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
to release from work at the end of the day
post-lexical access
to start (a building project)
applied art
biomedical engineering
electronics industry
social worker
migrant worker
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
\the four classes\ of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation)
ergonomics
porter
pottery
business
industry
work-point recorder
industrial design
worksheet
cochlear implant
eight-hour working day
industrial park
potter
tiling
injury leave
to do poorly done work over again
volunteer
worker in science and technology
work team
reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc)
industry
workplace overseer
civil engineering
engineering graphics
erotic (loanword mimicking the shape of Japanese katakana エロ, pronounced \ero\)
Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio
concept-driven processing
industrial injury; work-related injury
to spend a great deal of time and effort
docker
worker
abortion
slave labor
work point (measure of work completed in a rural commune in the PRC during the planned economy era)
working committee
IEEE
man-hour
to sell one's labor
staff
to multiplex
project to raise low-lying water for irrigation purposes
young worker (esp of the CCP)
to undertake to perform work within a time limit and according to specifications
to knock off (at the end of a day's work)
I-beam
hydraulic engineering
gig economy
volunteer worker
working hours
G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations)
hourly worker
to stop work for the day (generally of laborers)
chief labor contractor
time allocated for a project
China Aerospace Corporation, forerunner of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) 中國航天科技集團公司|中国航天科技集团公司
workpiece
agricultural worker
Matsushita Electronics Industry
grave digger
milling (machining)
foundry work
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)
manufactured goods
to return to work (after a stoppage)
knife work (food preparation)
to multiplex
to work for a trial period
Gongnong district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[hè gǎng], Heilongjiang
patient work makes a skilled craftsman
assiduous and painstaking
gongbi, traditional Chinese painting method characterized by meticulous brush technique and detailed description
processing efficiency
Sima Xiangru is meticulous and Mei Gao is fast (idiom)
scheming
sanitation worker
Anhui University of Technology and Science
to help with farm work
to exchange labor
processing plant
toolbox
Maizhokunggar county, Tibetan: Mal gro gung dkar rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[lā sà], Tibet
mechanic
riveter
handicraft
studio
Maizhokunggar county, Tibetan: Mal gro gung dkar rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[lā sà], Tibet
indentured laborer
artificial insemination
wages; pay
baggage handler
welder
a mechanic
artificial island
Solidarity (Polish worker's union)
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
microminiature technology
reformatory
Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)
defense industry
national industry
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator
to work
light industry
secret service
payment by the hour; time-rate wages (opposite: piece-rate wage 計件工資|计件工资[jì jiàn gōng zī])
salary
volunteer
workshop
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)
assembly plant
foreign worker
Workers' Party (Singapore opposition party)
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC)
a strike
teaching and administrative staff
China Petrol and Chemical Industry Association (CPCIA)
eight grade wage scale (system)
gauge
to task
science and engineering as academic subjects
to telecommute; to work remotely
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university
time division multiplexing
school of engineering
industrialized countries
plumber
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC)
nurse's aide
to finish work
to skimp on the job
utility knife
industrial worker
Ministry of Works (in imperial China)
ergonomics
multiplexer
RWTH Aachen University
sexual object
to provide work to relieve poverty
to practice (work skills)
artificial insemination
working procedure
social work
expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill
Ministry of Nuclear Industry
fitter
woodwork
overalls (clothing)
steel industry
workaholic
knowledge worker
part work, part study
hard labor (in penal code)
(mining) face (as in coalface 採煤工作面|采煤工作面[cǎi méi gōng zuò miàn])
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
biotechnology
technical or industrial school
Technical University of Berlin, Germany (Technische Universitaet zu Berlin)
Chinese Academy of Engineering
temporary job; odd job
engineering graphics
traditional Chinese musical notation using Chinese characters to represent musical notes
shoemaker
workstation
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
sex worker
temporary job
stonemasonry
to work as a foreman
planing
equal pay for equal work
kind of work in production (e.g. benchwork, foundry work etc)
length of service
chemical factory; chemical plant
day labor
plumber
normal operation
construction
housing project for low-income urban residents
workshop
(of workers) to have no work to do
nuclear engineering
workers' shed
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC)
ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China)
industrial and mining area
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
vocational high school
foreman
tool
artificial respiration (medicine)
canal
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
salaried class
chemical engineering
to record work points 工分[gōng fēn]
technical university
workflow
salaried class
industrial zone
to knock off work for the day
factory
Gongbo'gyamda county, Tibetan: Kong po rgya mda' rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[lín zhī dì qū], Tibet
part-time work
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
University of Science and Engineering
Xigong district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市 in Henan province 河南
garbage collector
odd-job worker (janitor, groundsman etc) at a school or government office
gas station attendant
working committee
to do one's work
to make preparations
value engineering
labor union
South China University of Technology
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC)
All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)
to process
sit-in strike
payday
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
process trade
proper
educator
to work as long-term hired hand
geotechnical engineering
piece rate wage
plumber
Hefei University of Technology
to change workshifts
handwork
International Labor Organization
Gongbo'gyamda county, Tibetan: Kong po rgya mda' rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[lín zhī dì qū], Tibet
artificial
labor
science and engineering as academic subjects
foundry (workshop or factory)
lumberjack
wavelength division multiplexing
genetic engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
utility frequency
boatman
electrician
toolbar (in computer software)
engineering
workplace overseer
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PPK)
Seiko, Japanese watch and electronics company
journalist
auto mechanic
jerry-built building project
multitasking
to maximize one's time
artificial lighting
overwork
to put in time and energy
political work
electronic engineering
heavy industry
teaching and administrative staff
workbench
handicraft
(computer) workstation
social worker
munitions factory
cochlear implant
a working group; a task force
industry and commerce
Beijing Institute of Technology