工 in English

Measure word

• 份 fèn classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分[fen4] attested in use
• 家 jiā home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical... attested in use

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 「他们又要罢工了吗？」「恐怕是的。」

  "Will they go on strike again?" "I'm afraid so."

• 7月份工业生产大幅增长。

  Industrial production rose sharply in July.

• AI 代表人工智能。

  AI stands for artificial intelligence.

• 一份我们不喜欢的工作就是。。。一份工作。

  A job that you don't love is... a job.

• 一领到工资就把钱还给你。

  I'll pay you back once I receive my salary.

• 上周一我没有工作。

  I didn't work last Monday.

• 下周工厂可能会关。

  Possibly the factory will be closed down next week.

• 不要拖延去找工作的事。

  Stop putting off finding a job.

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