打工仔

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Chinese

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to work on a part-time, casual or temporary basis
minutely; young; duty
minutely; young; duty; responsibility
 
simp. and trad.
(打工仔)
打工

Pronunciation

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Noun

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打工仔

  1. (colloquial) young worker; employee
  2. (colloquial, chiefly Mainland China) young man who leaves his hometown in the countryside to work in menial jobs in the city