công tác
See also: công-tắc
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 工作 (“work; task”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ taːk̚˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ taːk̚˦˧˥]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kəwŋ͡m˧˧ taːk̚˦˥]
Noun edit
- a government or business mission or task
Verb edit
- to do a formal job for a living
- Short for đi công tác (“to go on a business trip”).
- công tác dài ngày
- to work far away for quite some time