工 — Chinese character
工
gōng
labor, work; laborer, worker
- Pinyin
- gōng
- Radical
- 48 ⼯ (Work)
- Strokes
- 3
- Components
- 一 丄
- Formation
- pictographic — A spade or other workman's tool
- Japanese
- 工 as a kanji
Common words with 工
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 工业 (工業) | gōng yè | industry |
| 工程 | gōng chéng | engineering; an engineering project |
| 工具 | gōng jù | tool; instrument |
| 工人 | gōng rén | worker; 个 (gè),名 (míng) |
| 员工 (員工) | yuán gōng | staff; personnel; employee |
| 工厂 (工廠) | gōng chǎng | factory; measure word: 家 (jiā), 座 (zuò) |
| 工资 (工資) | gōng zī | wages; pay; measure word: 份 (fèn) |
| 职工 (職工) | zhí gōng | employee; staff member; worker |
| 加工 | jiā gōng | to process; processing |
| 工会 (工會) | gōng huì | labor union; trade union |
| 人工 | rén gōng | artificial; manpower |
English words written with 工
工 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Mencius 10 · Zhuangzi 14 · Doctrine of the Mean 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.