工资

Character by character

• 工gōng3 strokesHSK 1labor, work; worker, laborer
• 资zī10 strokesHSK 3 traditional 資property; wealth; capital

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

Example sentences

• 您想要多少工资？

  Nín xiǎng yào duō shao gōng zī

  How much do you want in terms of salary?

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• 我的工资比他少多了。

  Wǒ de gōng zī bǐ tā shǎo duō le

  My income is a far cry from his.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 工资. 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

• 资料zī liàoHSK 4

  material; resources; data; information; profile (Internet)

• 投资tóu zīHSK 4

  investment; to invest

• 资金zī jīnHSK 3

  funds; capital

• 员工yuán gōngHSK 3

  staff; personnel; employee

• 资格zī géHSK 3

  qualifications; seniority

• 工具gōng jùHSK 3

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

• 资源zī yuánHSK 4

  natural resource (such as water or minerals); resource (such as manpower or tourism)

• 工人gōng rénHSK 1

  worker

• 工程gōng chéngHSK 4

  engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking

• 工厂gōng chǎngHSK 3

  factory

• 工业gōng yèHSK 3

  industry

• 资产zī chǎnHSK 5

  property; assets

• 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

• 开工kāi gōngHSK 7

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

• 资助zī zhùHSK 5

  to subsidize; to provide financial aid; subsidy

• 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

• 加工jiā gōngHSK 3

  to process; processing; working (of machinery)

• 工地gōng dìHSK 7

  construction site

• 资本zī běnHSK 5

  capital (economics)

• 手工shǒu gōngHSK 4

  handwork; manual

• 施工shī gōngHSK 7

  construction; to carry out construction or large-scale repairs