工 gōng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 工 — labor, work
- Made of
- 一 one 丄 above
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
工作
gōngzuò
to work; work, job
Characters in this word
作 zuò
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 乍 first time, for the first time, suddenly
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我工作很忙。 Wǒ gōngzuò hěn máng. I'm very busy at work.
- 他的工作很好。 Tā de gōngzuò hěn hǎo. He has a good job.
- 我在医院工作。 Wǒ zài yīyuàn gōngzuò. I work at a hospital.