Chinese symbol for “wages”
工资
gōng zī
Traditional: 工資
wages; pay; measure word: 份 (fèn)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wages is 工资 (gōng zī), defined as: wages; pay; measure word: 份 (fèn).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wages”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 工钱 (工錢) | gōng qián | salary; wages |
| 薪饷 (薪餉) | xīn xiǎng | (old) (military and police) pay; wages; (Tw) salary |
| 资俸 (資俸) | zī fèng | salary; pay |
| 饷银 (餉銀) | xiǎng yín | (old) pay; wages (esp. for soldiers) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 工资.
| 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 |
| 资料 (資料) | zī liào | material; resources |
| 资源 (資源) | zī yuán | natural resource (such as water or minerals); resource (such as manpower or tourism) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wages”.
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.