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Kanji Detail for 工 - "craft, artisan"

工

  • Meaning

    工 means "craft, artisan." Also associated with to devise.

    1. Work - Labor; craftsmanship; manufacture.

    2. Craft - A skill; a technique; an art.

    3. Construction - Building; engineering.

  • Words using 工

    • 工場 こうじょう Listen factory; plant; mill
    • 工事 こうじ Listen construction work
    • 工業 こうぎょう Listen (manufacturing) industry
    • 工作 こうさく Listen handicraft; work; construction
    • 人工 じんこう Listen artificial; man-made; human work
    • 加工 かこう Listen manufacturing; processing; treatment
    • 工学 こうがく Listen engineering
    • 商工 しょうこう Listen commerce and industry

  • Four-character idioms with 工

    • 偽装工作 ぎそうこうさく Listen diversionary tactics (maneuvering); disguise; hide by camouflage
    • 創意工夫 そういくふう Listen ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality
    • 同工異曲 どうこういきょく Listen equal workmanship but different style
    • 士農工商 しのうこうしょう Listen hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants in Edo society
    • 異曲同工 いきょくどうこう Listen different in appearance but essentially the same in content; equal in skills or workmanship but different in style or artistic flavor; the same for all practical purposes
    • 裏面工作 りめんこうさく Listen string-pulling; backstage manoeuvering (maneuvering)

  • Tattoo check: 工

    • Verified meaning: craft, artisan
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read きぬい, きぬぬい, く, こう)
    • Also carries these associations: to devise

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 工

    Given names 工(こう)Listen 工(たくみ)Listen 工(つとむ)Listen

    Surnames 工(きぬい)Listen 工(きぬぬい)Listen 工(く)Listen 工(たくえ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    craft; construction; katakana e radical (no. 48)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    labor, work; worker, laborer

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    labor, work; laborer, worker

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Skilled; good at. Such as 工整, 工緻. | A worker. All who practice arts and make objects for use are called 工. The work done is also called 工. Such as 同盟罷工, meaning agreeing not to work. Their wages are called 工資. | Officials. 臣工 broadly refers to all officials. Hence, all officials are also called 百工. See (Book of Odes). | 工尺: Names for musical notation. Simple symbols to replace the twelve pitch-pipes.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gu(グ) グ

    koh(コウ) コウ

    ku(ク) ク

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    3 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    工 (e・takumi・takumihen・ko)

  • Related Keywords

    craft artisan to devise skillful workmanship construction engineering build create factory industry labor manufacturing produce production technique

Sentences including 工

  • My father and my brother work in this factory.

  • road under repair.''

  • The factory did not want him.

  • He works in a factory.

  • That will be better than the factory.

  • My father works for a factory.

  • It is the factory , my brother works in.

  • That college student is studying engineering.

  • He is a good carpenter.

  • This is a plan of my own devising.

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