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Chinese symbol for “employee”

职工
zhí gōng
Traditional: 職工
employee; staff member; worker

The closest CC-CEDICT match for employee is 职工 (zhí gōng), defined as: employee; staff member; worker.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

职 zhí
duty, profession; office, post
radical 128 ⽿ · 11 strokes
工 gōng
labor, work; laborer, worker
radical 48 ⼯ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “employee”

WordPinyinMeaning
雇员 (雇員)gù yuánemployee
从业人员 (從業人員)cóng yè rén yuánemployee; person employed in a trade or profession
员工 (員工)yuán gōngstaff; personnel; employee
打工仔dǎ gōng zǎiyoung worker; employee

Related words

Other words that share a character with 职工.

WordPinyinMeaning
职业 (職業)zhí yèoccupation; profession; vocation; professional
职务 (職務)zhí wùpost; position
辞职 (辭職)cí zhíto resign
职责 (職責)zhí zéduty; responsibility
职位 (職位)zhí wèiposition; post; job
工作gōng zuòto work; (of a machine) to operate
工业 (工業)gōng yèindustry
工程gōng chéngengineering; an engineering project

See also: Japanese symbol for “employee”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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