IDENTITY
工gōngwork; worker
HSK 1Top 100
CORE MEANING
work; worker
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.work; workerHSK1
- 2.engineeringHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 工work radical (gōng)
- strokes
- 3
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- 工
USAGE
Common words
工作gōngzuòwork; job
工人gōngrénworker
工厂gōngchǎngfactory
Graded examples
他工作很忙。Tā gōngzuò hěn máng.HSK2
He is very busy at work.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
The old picture of a carpenter’s square — the tool of work.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #100
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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