工 gōng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 工 — labor, work
- 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.
- 你爸爸在哪儿工作？ Nǐ bàba zài nǎr gōngzuò? Where does your dad work?
- 他工作很认真。 Tā gōngzuò hěn rènzhēn. He works very conscientiously.
- 她明年去国外工作。 Tā míngnián qù guówài gōngzuò. Next year she will go abroad to work.
- 你喜欢现在的工作吗？ Nǐ xǐhuan xiànzài de gōngzuò ma? Do you like your current job?
- 我明天不工作。 Wǒ míngtiān bù gōngzuò. I'm not working tomorrow.
- 找工作很难。 Zhǎo gōngzuò hěn nán. It's hard to find a job.
- 妈妈的工作在学校。 Māma de gōngzuò zài xuéxiào. Mom works at a school.