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工地

gōngdì

construction site

Workers in hard hats and a crane at a building site
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Characters in this word

工 gōng

Strokes
3
Radical
工 — labor, work
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 工

地 de

Strokes
6
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 也 also, too
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 工地周围设置了围栏,防止行人误入危险区域。 Gōngdì zhōuwéi shèzhì le wéilán, fángzhǐ xíngrén wùrù wēixiǎn qūyù. Fencing was set up around the construction site to prevent pedestrians from entering a dangerous area by mistake.
  • 工地上的工人都戴着安全帽。 Gōngdì shàng de gōngrén dōu dài zhe ānquánmào. The workers on the construction site are all wearing hard hats.
  • 他每天早上六点就到工地干活。 Tā měitiān zǎoshang liù diǎn jiù dào gōngdì gànhuó. Every morning he gets to the construction site to work at six.

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