工作 in English

Measure word

• 份 fèn classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分[fen4] attested
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 项 xiàng back of neck; item; thing; term (in a mathematical formula); sum (of money); classifier for principles, items, clauses... attested
• 种 zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts attested in use

Character breakdown

• 工 gōng work
• 作 zuò to do

Stroke order

How it used to be written

工

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 17 forms

作

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 17 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 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.

• 上周一我没有工作。

  I didn't work last Monday.

• 不要拖延去找工作的事。

  Stop putting off finding a job.

• 亲爱的，记得11点喊我起床工作。

  Honey, don't forget to wake me up for work at 11 o'clock.

• 从什么时候开始您就这里工作着的呢？

  How long have you been working here?

• 他一边唱歌一边工作。

  He sang while working.

• 他不会做这种工作，她也不会。

  He can't do this kind of work, and she can't either.

All example sentences with 工作