工 gōng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 工 — labor, work
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
工资
gōngzī
salary
Characters in this word
资 zī
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 工资很高。 Gōngzī hěn gāo. The salary is very high.
- 今天发工资。 Jīntiān fā gōngzī. They pay salaries today.
- 你的工资呢？ Nǐ de gōngzī ne? What about your salary?