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Chinese symbol for “simplex”

单工
dān gōng
Traditional: 單工
(telecommunications) simplex

The closest CC-CEDICT match for simplex is 单工 (dān gōng), defined as: (telecommunications) simplex.

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Characters and stroke order

单 dān
single, individual, only; lone
radical 24 ⼗ · 8 strokes
工 gōng
labor, work; laborer, worker
radical 48 ⼯ · 3 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 单工.

WordPinyinMeaning
单位 (單位)dān wèiunit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole)
简单 (簡單)jiǎn dānsimple; not complicated
名单 (名單)míng dānlist of names
单独 (單獨)dān dúalone; by oneself
单纯 (單純)dān chúnsimple; pure
单一 (單一)dān yīsingle; only
工作gōng zuòto work; (of a machine) to operate
工业 (工業)gōng yèindustry

See also: Japanese symbol for “simplex”.

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.