工作 gōngzuò▶ trabajar, trabajo

Stroke order

工作 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 工 — 3 strokes
• 作 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. to work
2. (of a machine) to operate
3. job
4. work
5. task

Example sentences

• 爸爸在医院工作。Bàba zài yīyuàn gōngzuò.Dad works at the hospital.
• 他的工作很好。Tā de gōngzuò hěn hǎo.His job is very good.

Related words

• 作业deberes, tarea
• 作家escritor
• 作用Efecto
• 作者autor
• 动作acción
• 工资salarios

工作 is pronounced gōngzuò and means “trabajar, trabajo”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 工作 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.