工作

Character by character

• 工gōng3 strokesHSK 1labor, work; worker, laborer
• 作zuò7 strokesHSK 1make; work; compose, write; act, perform

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

Example sentences

• 一起工作。

  Yī qǐ gōng zuò

  Work together.

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• 他在工作。

  Tā zài gōng zuò

  He is working.

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• 你在工作。

  Nǐ zài gōng zuò

  You are at work.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

• 作为zuò wéiHSK 4

  one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be

• 作zuòHSK 6

  to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works

• 合作hé zuòHSK 3

  to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together; cooperation

• 作用zuò yòngHSK 2

  to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 用, inhibition

• 作品zuò pǐnHSK 3

  work (of art); opus

• 动作dòng zuòHSK 1

  movement; motion; action; to act; to move

• 制作zhì zuòHSK 3

  to make; to manufacture

• 员工yuán gōngHSK 3

  staff; personnel; employee

• 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

• 作业zuò yèHSK 2

  school assignment; homework; work; task; operation; to operate

• 工程gōng chéngHSK 4

  engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking

• 操作cāo zuòHSK 4

  to work; to operate; to manipulate

• 工厂gōng chǎngHSK 3

  factory

• 作者zuò zhěHSK 3

  author; writer

• 作家zuò jiāHSK 2

  author

• 作出zuò chūHSK 4

  to put out; to come up with; to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc); to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc); to draw (conclusion); to deliver (speech, judgment); to devise (explanation); to extract

• 工业gōng yèHSK 3

  industry

• 当作dàng zuòHSK 6

  to treat as; to regard as

• 运作yùn zuòHSK 6

  to operate; operations; workings; activities (usu. of an organization); thread (computing)

• 创作chuàng zuòHSK 3

  to create; to produce; to write; creative work; creation

• 作战zuò zhànHSK 6

  combat; to fight

• 打工dǎ gōngHSK 2

  to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation