Work in Chinese
work · HSK 1
工作
- 工 work
- 作 to do
Counted with 份: 一份工作
她找到了一份新工作。 She found a new job.
Other ways to say work
More words with 工 or 作
How do you say work in Chinese?
Work in Chinese is 工作 (gōng zuò). You can also say 干 (gàn), 办事 (bàn shì), 干活 (gàn huó), 办公 (bàn gōng).
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.