工 gōng
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 工 — labor, work
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
工程
gōngchéng
engineering project
Characters in this word
程 chéng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 呈 to petition, to submit
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 工程开始了。 Gōngchéng kāishǐ le. The project has started.
- 这个工程很大。 Zhège gōngchéng hěn dà. This project is very big.
- 工程今天完工。 Gōngchéng jīntiān wángōng. The project is finished today.