廚工

Chinese

Etymology 1

		kitchen	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (廚工)		廚	工
simp. (厨工)		厨	工

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chúgōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu⁴ gung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chúgōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chúgong
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu²-kung¹
    • Yale: chú-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwugong
    • Palladius: чугун (čugun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyu⁴ gung¹
    • Yale: chyùh gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsy⁴ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qu⁴ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː²¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

廚工

1. kitchen worker

Etymology 2

		phonetic
trad. (廚工)		廚	工
simp. (厨工)		厨	工

From Malay tukang.

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tû-kang

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tû-kang
    • Tâi-lô: tû-kang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: du'kafng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tu²⁴⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tu²⁴⁻²² kaŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tu¹³⁻²² kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tu²⁴⁻¹¹ kaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tu²³⁻³³ kaŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

廚工

1. (Batavia Hokkien) craftsman

Synonyms

• 工匠 (gōngjiàng)

Further reading

• Salmon, Claudine (2009) “Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges”, in Archipel‎^[1], volume 78, number 1, pages 181–208