工 gōng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 工 — labor, work
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
工具
gōngjù
tool
Characters in this word
具 jù
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 八 — eight
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这是工具。 Zhè shì gōngjù. This is a tool.
- 我买工具。 Wǒ mǎi gōngjù. I buy tools.
- 工具在哪儿？ Gōngjù zài nǎr? Where are the tools?