工

work; worker

No. 95 most used

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

A carpenter's square: a tool for work.

Words

• 工作

  gōng zuò

  to work; (of a machine) to operate; job
• 特工

  tè gōng

  secret service; special service; secret service agent
• 工厂

  gōng chǎng

  factory; CL:家,座
• 工人

  gōng rén

  worker; CL:个,名
• 工具

  gōng jù

  tool; instrument; utensil
• 员工

  yuán gōng

  staff; personnel; employee

Sentences

• 他在一所中学工作。

  tā zài yì suǒ zhōng xué gōng zuò

  He works in a secondary school.
• 他有很多工作要做。

  tā yǒu hěn duō gōng zuò yào zuò

  He had a lot of work to do.
• 你的工作都完成了。

  nǐ de gōng zuò dōu wán chéng le

  You've finished your work.
• 她一心一意地工作。

  tā yì xīn yí yì de gōng zuò

  She works with single-minded determination.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.