扮工

Chinese

		to disguise oneself; to dress up; adorn	work; worker; skill work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labour
trad. (扮工)		扮	工
simp. #(扮工)		扮	工

Etymology

From homophonous 辦公／办公 (baan6 gung1).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baan⁶ gung¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baan⁶ gung¹
    • Yale: baahn gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baan⁶ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ban⁶ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn²² kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

扮工

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) to pretend to be working in the office when one is not actually working; to do performative work

   日日扮工好辛苦。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   jat⁶ jat⁶ baan⁶ gung¹ hou² san¹ fu². [Jyutping]

   Pretending to be working every day in the office is very tiring.