工

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Pictograph of a carpenter's rule.

[edit] Han character

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

1. labour, work
2. worker, labourer

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

工 (jyutping gung1, Yale gung1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

工 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: こう (kō) (means: work, craft, art, skill; workman, artisan), く (ku)
• Kun: たくみ (takumi), わざ (waza), つかさ (tsukasa)

[edit] Compounds

• 陶工 (とうこう, tōkō)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

工
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 공 (revised: gong, McCune-Reischauer: kong)

• Name (hangeul): 장인, 로동, 노동()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

工 (pinyin gōng (gong1), Wade-Giles kung¹)

[edit] Compounds

• 陶瓷工 (táo cí gōng)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

工 (gung)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

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