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Kanji Detail for 工 - "craft, work, skill"

  • Meaning

    工 means "craft, work, skill."

    1. Work - Labor; craftsmanship; manufacture.

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

    3. Construction - Building; engineering.

  • 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.
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Sentences including

  • My father and my brother work in this factory.

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  • 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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