工

See also: エ [U+30A8 KATAKANA LETTER E] and Appendix:Variations of "i"

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – a bladed tool.

Han character

工 (radical 48 工+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一中一 (MLM), four-corner 1010₀)

Derived characters

• 魟 (𫚉)

References

• KangXi: page 325, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8714
• Dae Jaweon: page 626, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 410, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5DE5

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		工

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōng (gong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kung
• Min Nan (POJ): kang / khang / kong
• Wu (WT Romanisation): kon (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: kung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gong
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹
    • Yale: gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kung
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /kuŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kang / khang / kong
    • Tâi-lô: kang / khang / kong
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ⁴⁴/, /kʰaŋ⁴⁴/, /kɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ³⁴/, /kʰaŋ³⁴/, /kɔŋ³⁴/
  • Note: kang, khang - vernacular, kong - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: kon (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (工, reconstructed)
Character (工), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古紅切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kəwŋ/	/kuŋ/	/kuŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (工, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
工								gōng								‹ kuwng ›								/*kˤoŋ/								officer
工								gōng								‹ kuwng ›								/*kˤoŋ/								work
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
工					4022					工					東					0					公					/*koːŋ/

Definitions

工

1. labour, work

   工作  ―  gōngzuò  ―  work

2. worker, laborer

   工人  ―  gōngrén  ―  worker, laborer

   陶瓷工  ―  táocígōng  ―  potter

3. industry, profession, trade

Compounds

• 工廠／工厂 (gōngchǎng)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

工

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. work, craft, art, skill
2. workman, artisan

Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Kun: たくみ (takumi), わざ (waza), つかさ (tsukasa)

Compounds

• 陶工 (とうこう, tōkō)

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Korean

Hanja

工 (gong)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 공 (McCune-Reischauer: kong)

• Name (hangeul): 장인, 로동, 노동()

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Vietnamese

Han character

工 (công, cong, côông, gồng, trong, cung)

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