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工作 (gōng zuò): meaning and stroke order

工作 (gōng zuò) means to work, (of a machine) to operate, job, work, task, 个,份项.

工作

Simplified
工作
Traditional
工作 (same form)
Pinyin
gōng zuò

Stroke order of 工作

工

  • gōng work; worker
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

作

  • zuō (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop
  • zuò to do; to engage in; to write; to compose
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 工作

  1. gōng zuò
    • to work
    • (of a machine) to operate
    • job
    • work
    • task
    • CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]

Radicals of the characters

工
Radical 工 (Kangxi radical 48) · 3 strokes · 丅 on top, 一 below
作
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 乍 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

工作 in our stories

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  • 小春每天坐在电脑前面工作，很少运动。

    Xiǎochūn měitiān zuò zài diànnǎo qiánmiàn gōngzuò hěn shǎo yùndòng

    Xiaochun works at a computer all day and rarely exercises.

    From the story A little more every day HSK 2

  • 何芳刚到北京工作，想租一个小房间。

    Hé Fāng gāng dào Běijīng gōngzuò xiǎng zū yí gè xiǎo fángjiān

    He Fang has just started working in Beijing and wants to rent a small room.

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 进了办公室，经理先问：“你为什么想做这个工作？”

    jìn le bàngōngshì jīnglǐ xiān wèn nǐ wèishénme xiǎng zuò zhè gè gōngzuò

    In the office the manager's first question is, "Why do you want this job?"

    From the story The honest answer HSK 3

Stories using 工作

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).