Salary in Chinese
salary · HSK 4
工资
- 工 work
- 资 money
Counted with 份: 一份工资
我们每个月十号发工资。 We get paid on the tenth of every month.
Other ways to say salary
More words with 工 or 资
How do you say salary in Chinese?
Salary in Chinese is 工资 (gōng zī). You can also say 薪水 (xīn shuǐ).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.