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工作 gōngzuò

工作 gōngzuò Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 10 English Translations of the word 工作 gōngzuò .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
gōngzuò | gong1 zuo4
English translation
to work
(of a machine) to operate
job
work
task
CL:
>[gè], fèn [fèn], xiàng
> Xiàng [xiàng]

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Etymology of 工作 gōngzuò

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gōng

Type

pictographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a carpenter's tool.

Positional decomposition

一丄

Number of Strokes

3
zuò

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. rén represents the meaning and zhà represents the sound.

Positional decomposition

亻乍

Number of Strokes

7

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Example sentences using 工作 gōngzuò

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de 工作 gōngzuò shì xiāo 马铃薯 mǎ líng shǔ .

His job was to peel potatoes.

zuò zhè Xiàng 工作 gōngzuò 最好 zuìhǎo Néng dǒng diǎn 医学 yī xué .

For this job it is desirable to know something about medicine.

如果 rúguǒ xiǎng 得到 dé dào zhè fèn 工作 gōngzuò , jiù 寄份简历 jiǎnlì gěi 他们 tā men .

Send them your vitae if you want to go for this job.

BAKER先生 Xiānsheng : shì de , 喜欢 xǐhuan de 食物 shíwù , ne , 你是干什么 shénme 工作 gōngzuò de ?

MR BAKER: Yes, I like hot food Well, what do you do?

达尔 shēng 对眼 duì yǎn qián zhè 工作 gōngzuò de qián bàn 部分 bùfen Mǎn yǒu 兴趣 xìng qù .

Dalleson relished the first portion of the work before him.

工作 gōngzuò Decomposition

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工作 gōngzuò Compounds

See all 214 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 工作 gōngzuò in their composition.

  • gōng
    • kōng
      • kòng , qiāng , qiāng , kōng , kōng , kōng , Zhào , hōng , kōng , kòng , , , , , , , , , ,
    • shì
      • shì , shì , shì , shì , shì , , shì , , , shì , shì ,
    • chā
      • cuō , cuō , jiē , cuō , cuó , suō , cuó , chá , zhà , cuō , chài , chā , cuó , , , , , , , , , ,
    • Hóng
    • qiǎo
    • Zuǒ
      • duò
      • suí
        • tuǒ , huī , duò , , , tuǒ
      • suí
        • suí
          • suǐ ,
        • suǐ ,
      • zuǒ , zuǒ , tuǒ , , , , ,
      • shì
        • shì , shì ,
      • , , , , , , ,
    • Jiāng
    • Gòng
    • hóng
    • gǒng
      • , , hòng
    • gǒng
    • hóng
    • jǐng
    • jīng
      • qīng , jìn , jìng , jīng , , kēng , xīng , kēng , , , , jìng , , , , qīng , jīng , tīng , jìng , , qiǎng , jìng , jīng , , jìng , , xíng , jǐng ,
    • qióng
      • qióng ,
    • tóng
      • áng , qióng
    • xún
      • , , xún , , , , , xún , , , , , xún
    • gòng
      • gàn
      • , gòng , , , , , gàng , , ,
    • xiàng
      • hòng
    • Jīng , qīng , gōng , Xiàng , gōng , gāng , qīng , gāng , gāng , jìng , gāng , jìng , qiǎng , hòng , tīng , jīng , , qiú , jìng , hóng , jiāng , kēng , chuán , jiāng , jìng , gāng , xíng , , , jiàng , , , hóng , , , , , , , , , , , , hòng
  • zuò
    • zuó , ,
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