工

See also エ (katakana)

See also Appendix:Variations of "i"

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a carpenter’s rule.

Han character

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

1. labour, work
2. worker, labourer

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

工 (jyutping gung1, Yale gung1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

工 (POJ kung, Guangdong kung¹, Hagfa Pinyim gung1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

工 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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)

Compounds

• 陶工 (とうこう, tōkō)

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Korean

Hanja

工
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 장인, 로동, 노동()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 陶瓷工 (táocígōng)
• 工廠, 工厂 (gōngchǎng)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

工 (gung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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