打工

Character by character

• 打dǎ5 strokesHSK 1strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
• 工gōng3 strokesHSK 1labor, work; worker, laborer

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 打工. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 工作gōng zuòHSK 1

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job; work; task

• 打dǎHSK 1

  to beat; to strike; to hit; to break; to type; to mix up; to build; to fight; to fetch; to make; to tie up; to issue; to shoot; to calculate; to play (a game); since; from

• 打开dǎ kāiHSK 1

  to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on

• 打电话dǎ diàn huàHSK 1

  to make a telephone call

• 打算dǎ suànHSK 2

  to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation

• 员工yuán gōngHSK 3

  staff; personnel; employee

• 打击dǎ jīHSK 5

  to hit; to strike; to attack; to crack down on sth; blow; (psychological) shock; percussion (music)

• 工具gōng jùHSK 3

  tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)

• 工人gōng rénHSK 1

  worker

• 工资gōng zīHSK 3

  wages; pay

• 工程gōng chéngHSK 4

  engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking

• 工厂gōng chǎngHSK 3

  factory

• 打破dǎ pòHSK 3

  to break; to smash

• 工业gōng yèHSK 3

  industry

• 打扮dǎ banHSK 5

  to decorate; to dress; to make up; to adorn; manner of dressing; style of dress

• 打扰dǎ rǎoHSK 5

  to disturb; to bother; to trouble

• 开工kāi gōngHSK 7

  to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job

• 打败dǎ bàiHSK 4

  to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated

• 打架dǎ jiàHSK 5

  to fight; to scuffle; to come to blows

• 打造dǎ zàoHSK 6

  to create; to build; to develop; to forge (of metal)

• 打球dǎ qiúHSK 1

  to play ball; to play with a ball

• 工程师gōng chéng shīHSK 3

  engineer

• 人工rén gōngHSK 3

  artificial; manpower; manual work

• 工会gōng huìHSK 7

  labor union; trade union